PRIVACY: Telegram Founder Says Users Should ‘Delete WhatsApp.’ “WhatsApp doesn’t only fail to protect its users’ messages, it is consistently being used as a Trojan horse to spy on their users’ non-WhatsApp content, including photos kept on their phones. Founder of rival app Telegram, Pavel Durov, says people should just delete it.”

Yes, Durov is trying to get people to move from WhatsApp to his own Telegram, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong about WhatsApp.