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

Big Technology Podcast

English - March 03, 2021 16:44 - 49 minutes
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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.