This comes after $8.03 billion from a one-time tax benefit tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which promised to “create jobs”
Stop using Big Tech’s products. Support smaller businesses
As always, you can check out the community’s pinned post to get started: https://lemmy.world/post/40065381
You do need a phone number, and it is indeed american, even though it’s a non profit and they never did anything sketchy as far as i know.
If you want something private, without phone number, EU based and easy to install and use, then Olvid is for you. Remains the problem to bring people over, but you can keep using whatsapp in the same time until everybody you care about migrates.