More than 11 years after acquiring WhatsApp, Meta is finally bringing ads to the messaging platform. The change is significant given its founders shunned advertising. Here's what people are saying.

Meta announced that it is adding ads and subscriptions to its WhatsApp messaging app in a June 16 press release. The social media giant, primarily known as the parent company of Facebook, said that ...

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The ads will be shown to users only within WhatsApp’s “Updates” tab to separate them from people’s personal conversations.

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Businesses will soon have an option to select WhatsApp status for ads as they would for other Meta campaigns on Facebook or ...