WhatsApp Head Will Cathcart on Privacy, Content Moderation, and Apple

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Will Cathcart runs WhatsApp, the 2 billion user app that's the de facto tool for messaging and calling for many across the globe. Cathcart joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Facebook's feud with Apple, its battle with Signal, its bungled privacy update, new laws in India that might force it to break encryption, the way it thinks about content moderation and advertising, and plenty more.

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1:46.5	Will Cathcartes became the head of WhatsApp in March 2019, and the app has grown to more than 2 billion users since then.
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