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Here’s why you’re receiving weird messages on Whatsapp today




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Receiving weird messages today in your whatsapp group today? Well you’re not the only one.

Whatsapp is now the number 1 messaging service in the world, it’s every superseded regular SMS messaging services around the world.

With over 1 billion users, Whatsapp is now owned by Facebook after the social network King bought the company for €20 billion.

But the company’s service up until today was just a regular texting service, however that’s all changed.

Whatsapp has now supremely increased their service and every single message you send out and receive is highly encrypted.

You’ll probably receive the following message over the next day or two:
“Messages you send to this chat and calls are now secured with end-to-end encryption. Tap for more info”.

dea is simple: when you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat that you send that message to. No one can see inside that message,” WhatsApp said in a blog post announcing the update.

 

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