{"id":165028,"date":"2021-04-08T09:38:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T09:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=165028"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:09:41","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-found-using-signal-not-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mark-zuckerberg-found-using-signal-not-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg Found Using Signal, Not Whatsapp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Whatsapp Owner Zuckerberg Uses Signal Instead<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook that now owns <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whatsapp<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, is apparently using the secretive messaging app, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/signal.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Signal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Daviey\/status\/1378424183856697348\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to a tweet<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by cybersecurity researcher, Dave Walker, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/zuckerberg-leveraged-facebook-user-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facebook information leaked in 2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> revealed that Zuckerberg\u2019s number was found as listed on the Signal database.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This turn of events is interesting, revealing that he trusts the privacy of a competitor\u2019s application more than one his company owns, namely Whatsapp. If you\u2019ll recall, hundreds of Whatsapp users fled to other messaging apps like Signal and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Telegram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> when it was discovered that Whatsapp might share personal data with third parties after updating its terms and conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, the mass exodus from Whatsapp caused the company to delay the update, indicating that personal messages would not be affected. Clearly, Zuckerberg himself doesn\u2019t trust the new privacy policy, as he\u2019s chosen to keep his own chats secret with the use of Signal. Nice way to lead the way for the rest of us, Mark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-165035\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/image\/upload\/v1617874693\/pasted_image_0_24_lfwszm.png\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatsapp Owner Zuckerberg Uses Signal Instead Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook that now owns Whatsapp, is apparently using the secretive messaging app, Signal. According to a tweet by cybersecurity researcher, Dave Walker, Facebook information leaked in 2019 revealed that Zuckerberg\u2019s number was found as listed on the Signal database.\u00a0 This turn of events is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mark-zuckerberg-found-using-signal-not-whatsapp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mark Zuckerberg Found Using Signal, Not Whatsapp&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":165030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2477],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-165028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionsignal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324938,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165028\/revisions\/324938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165028"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=165028"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=165028"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=165028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}