Despite a delay in launching WhatsApp Pay in India owing to data compliance issues, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that the peer-to-peer, UPI-based payments feature will be rolled out in several countries in the next six months. Data compliance issues and regulations have kept WhatsApp Pay launch in abeyance for quite some time, despite a successful test run of the payments service with one million users in the country in 2018.
On elections, Zuckerberg said they are very focused on election integrity. “We were behind in 2016, but after working to protect elections in countries across the world from the EU — in the EU to India to Mexico to the US midterms for the past few years, we think our systems are now more advanced than any other companies”, he told the analysts. “There’s still going to be debate about what kinds of political speech should be allowed, especially as the 2020 elections heat up. But by any objective measure, our efforts in election integrity have made a lot of progress”, he noted.
