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Meta Platforms-owned mobile instant messenger and social media service
WhatsApp is mentioned 10 times across the documents, primarily in business and technology contexts rather than any direct connection to Jeffrey Epstein. The mentions appear in newsletters about tech industry deals, government oversight documents discussing social media platforms, and incidental references in email signatures.
WhatsApp appears predominantly in three contexts: business newsletters discussing Meta's $19 billion acquisition of the messaging platform and Sequoia Capital's early investment returns; government oversight documents analyzing social media platforms and encryption technologies used by tech companies; and incidentally in email signatures where journalists list their contact methods including WhatsApp. None of the mentions suggest WhatsApp had any operational connection to Epstein—rather, the platform is referenced as part of broader discussions about technology, social media business deals, and secure communications in journalism.
Key Highlights
- •Featured in The Hustle newsletter discussing Meta's $19 billion WhatsApp acquisition and how Jan Koum was initially rejected by Facebook before founding the company
- •Mentioned in government documents analyzing encryption technologies used by major internet companies including Apple, Google, Twitter, and WhatsApp
- •Sequoia Capital's early $60 million investment in WhatsApp in 2008 netted nearly $3 billion when the company was acquired
- •Referenced in discussions about mobile internet access in developing markets and social media platform adoption
- •Appears in journalist contact information as a secure messaging option alongside Signal and Telegram in BOP records
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Why "30 Under 30" is Absolute BS
2 mentionsYAHOO_010511
><span style="font-size: 16px;">Before he started WhatsApp, Facebook rejected Jan Koum’s application -- a fe
oum’s application -- a few years later, it bought WhatsApp for $19 billion.</span></p> <p style="line-height
1 mention
perfected the idea of a closed iWorld where the efficiencies and charm of inclusion made outside assault difficult. Younger companies like Instagram, WhatsApp, Weixin and others hover not far from a billion users and point us to this gated model spread and repeated. It is easy enough to imagine a world wher
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1 mentionHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019477 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019844
Source: House Oversight Committee
Syria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan had in the encryption and other safeguards used by giant Internet companies, such as Apple, © Google, Twitter, and WhatsApp. They evidently had not known © that in 2007 the NSA found a way to intercept this data before it was encrypted. The Internet, despite metaphors such
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strive.pdf
1 mentionHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032159 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032161
Aug 19, 2014Source: House Oversight Committee
heir behaviour and aspirations are no different from those who have higher incomes," cautioned Masiyiwa. "They want to use Facebook. They want to use WhatsApp. We have to find ways for them to access those things with their very low income." The UK Guardian 19-08-2014 - Will Zimbabwe be Africa's first cashl
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1 mentionSource: House Oversight Committee
y On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 10:55 AM Jide Zeitlin - wrote: Thank you for the introduction. Do you have a better sense of what he needs? Also, what's his WhatsApp/mobile so I can confirm details for today? When's best on Friday for me to visit with you? Bibi's speech was a bit of a dead letter on Europe. -- ple
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1 mentionYAHOO_000267
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Sponsored
BOP_Epstein_Records_Part_1_of_4
1 mentionSource: Bureau of Prisons FOIA
ion to that, do you have any statement on the situation? Thank you, b)(6); b)(7)(C) r )(5), (b)(7)(C) I Reporter I Buzzfeed News PGP I Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, Cell: +1 (613) 276 b~~l~C) Send anonymous tip: contact.buzzfeed.com Page 3832 Here is the final statement that~~~~~--, Fan send to al
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1 mentionSource: Bureau of Prisons FOIA
_. POP I Reporter I Buzzfeed News ( https://keybase.i ~~\m,r, &'P_ keys.asc?fmge1print=a08889e62500ad3c808 I bafb23ba2 I f38 le0 10 le) I Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, Cell: + I (613) Send anonymous hp: contact.buzzfeed.com Page 5154 Page 1336 Re: Psych Observation 7/8/19 6 pm until 7/10/19 at 9 am
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rmation for the phone number listed in the SORNA registration? Looks like the relevant number is For the number, could you please run that through WhatsApp, and take screen shots of any account that pops up associated with that number? In addition, could you please run database searches on 301 E. 66th
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Earnings Preview
1 mentionHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014887 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014950
Apr 6, 2017Source: House Oversight Committee
n. Recent key product/feature releases include: ¢ Stories for all: On the tail of a successful Instagram Stories launch in 8/16, Facebook rolled out WhatsApp Status (2/17), Messenger Day (3/17), and Facebook Stories (3/17). - Direct ephemeral messaging: After introducing ephemeral direct photo/video shari
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ave come to your team but in addition to that, do you have any statement on the situation? Thank you, Jane Reporter I BuzzFeed News PGP I Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, Cell: Send anonymous tip: contaabuzzfeed.com EFTA00035482
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