Topic
WhatsApp: news, timeline and key numbers
As of 22 October 2026, Oesnada has published 3 stories about WhatsApp, 3 of them in the last 30 days. The most recent, "Meta Says Muse Has Over 10M Users, With Shopping a Top Activity", was published on 22 October 2026. The highest importance score among them is 94 out of 100.
- Stories, last 30 days
- 3
- Stories, last 365 days
- 3
- Highest importance
- 94/100
- Most recent story
- 22 October 2026
The story so far
Meta updated its commercial terms of service on October 15 to allow automated software, such as web crawlers, to scrape content from websites linked to its business accounts. The change is scheduled to take effect on October 30. It affects any organization that uses tools like the Meta Business Suite to manage Facebook, Instagram, Messenger or WhatsApp profiles.
On October 19, federal prosecutors said Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi engineer, had been in frequent WhatsApp contact with a member of the Saudi royal family throughout 2025 and 2026. Mr. Alfozan is charged with planting a recording device in an OpenAI conference room in San Francisco. Prosecutors say the room was used for confidential discussions about research, strategy, government engagements and commercial relationships.
On October 22, Meta said on its third-quarter earnings call that its Muse AI agent had passed 10 million users in the U.S. and Canada, a month and a half after launch.
Written automatically from Oesnada story summaries of the last 90 days; no outside sources.
Timeline
- Meta Says Muse Has Over 10M Users, With Shopping a Top Activity
The numbers matter because Meta is positioning Muse as a major new revenue source.
Importance 90/100 - OpenAI suspect Alfozan had frequent WhatsApp contact with unnamed Saudi royal
Prosecutors say the room was used for confidential discussions about research, strategy, government engagements and commercial relationships, and that OpenAI executives met government officials there around the time the device was in place.
Importance 90/100 - Meta's New Terms Allow Scraping of Business-Linked Websites with No Opt-Out
The update, scheduled to take effect on October 30, affects any organization using tools like the Meta Business Suite to manage Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or WhatsApp profiles.
Importance 94/100
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Frequently asked questions
What is the latest WhatsApp news?
The latest Oesnada story about WhatsApp is "Meta Says Muse Has Over 10M Users, With Shopping a Top Activity", published on 22 October 2026.
How many stories has Oesnada published about WhatsApp?
Oesnada has published 3 stories about WhatsApp: 3 in the last 30 days and 3 in the last 365 days.
Which WhatsApp story mattered most?
The story with the highest importance score is "Meta's New Terms Allow Scraping of Business-Linked Websites with No Opt-Out" (94 out of 100), published on 15 October 2026. Importance is an automated score from 0 to 100.
Methodology and sources
Oesnada lists every published story that names this subject. A subject gets a page once at least three stories mention it. Subjects are identified automatically from story text. Importance is an automated score from 0 to 100 assigned to each story; it is a model judgement, not a measurement. The summary above is written by a language model from Oesnada summaries only and regenerates when a new story arrives.
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Oesnada, "WhatsApp: news, timeline and key numbers", https://oesnada.com/topics/whatsapp, accessed 22 October 2026.