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January 30, 2020 First India, then in the rest of the world: Whatsapp Payments, the system for sending money in chat "easy and fast like sending a photo", as the advertisement says, experienced on a million Indian users in 2018 , will be "implemented in several countries in the next six months".

To say it was Mark Zuckerberg, in the presentation of the group's quarterly financial results, then posted on Facebook.

The Menlo Park CEO has listed some recent numbers: around 2.9 billion people use Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp or Messenger every month and 2.3 billion use at least one of these services every day. In addition, "there are over 140 million small businesses that use our services to grow."

Quarterly with lights and shadows
The most popular social media in the world recorded in the last quarter of 2019 revenue higher than expected for 21.08 billion dollars: a record for Facebook, even if it is the lowest increase ever, less than 25% year on year: it was the fourth quarter in a row with Mark Zuckerberg's revenue growth of less than 30%.

Numbers that have not convinced investors, with the title of the social blue that has collapsed over 7% in after hours trading on Wall Street. And the words of 'Zuck' ("an excellent quarter and a good end of the year") were not enough to stop the fall. Zuckerberg also announced a $ 10 billion share buyback plan

The lesson of 2016
Zuckerberg also addressed the issues of privacy and electoral interference, reiterating the 'neutrality' of social media and the demand for "clear rules" for the sector.

On the subject of elections, the company is hard at work: "We are very focused on electoral integrity," he assured, and said he was "proud of the progress made to prevent foreign interference". In 2016, the year of Donald Trump's victory, in which "we were left behind, but after working to protect elections in countries all over the world", technology improved and "we think our systems are now more advanced than any another company, and we often warn law enforcement and intelligence about the threats we identify. "