cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5331985

President Maduro of Venezuela denounces

WhatsApp as a spying system

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has accused

WhatsApp of operating as a spying tool and urged citizens to switch to alternative messaging apps such as Telegram and WeChat.

Speaking at a meeting in Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, the president asserted, “WhatsApp provided its list of Venezuelan users to Colombian drug traffickers, who then conducted months of espionage.”

  • DyskolosEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Why the heck would you prefer WA over telegram? There’s a good reason many bad people and groups use it. Wouldn’t touch wa or wc with a 10m-pole but telegram, yeah sure.