Claim: In May 2021, the multiplatform messaging app WhatsApp issued an update that changed its privacy settings to include "everyone" by default, allowing any user to add a person to a group without the person's knowing.
Fact-check: Did WhatsApp Secretly Change Privacy Settings?
Verdict: mostly false
Organisation: Snopes
Author: Madison Dapcevich
Date published: 2021-05-25T14:27:40