Extremely Online: What's Up With WhatsApp?

1A | Oct 28, 2021

WhatsApp has over 2 billion users worldwide, but some Americans were unaware of just how popular it is until the Facebook outage earlier this month.

WhatsApp has also fallen victim to privacy and misinformation scandals in recent months, but that's gotten less buzz.

What are the implications of millions of people relying on one app for communication, news, and business?

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