Welcome to
Channel X!
In June of this year the popular communications app WhatsApp released a new feature called WhatsApp Channels, allowing content creators, public figures, and organizations to send broadcasts to large numbers of users. This feature was initially only availabe to users in Colombia and Singapore, then later Egypt, Chile, Malaysia, Morocco, Ukraine, Kenya, and Peru, before becoming widely available last month.
Many WhatsApp users saw potential dangers with the new Channels feature since it was a definite step away from a simple messaging platform and toward a more social-media-style experience.
That's why we created Channel X!