rewrite this title WhatsApp explains how it will work with other messaging apps under the DMA

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rewrite this title WhatsApp explains how it will work with other messaging apps under the DMA

What you need to know

  • WhatsApp will be required to make its platform interoperable under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act.
  • In an interview with Wired, an engineering director for WhatsApp described how support for third-party messages could work. 
  • The feature is currently in testing, and plans will be announced in March. WhatsApp will have “several months” after that to roll out the new feature.

WhatsApp has been figuring out how to make its app work with other messaging services for a while, and today, an engineering director for the app detailed its plan to do so. Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, will have to make the platform interoperable under the European Union’s new Digital Markets Act. 

Meta was designated as a gatekeeper under the DMA, and WhatsApp a core platform service. Among other things, these designations mean that Meta must make WhatsApp work with other messaging services for the sake of competition. In an interview with Wired published Tuesday, WhatsApp engineering director Dick Brouwer explained what interoperability on the platform could look like. 


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