New Delhi, Jan. 28 -- Meta has pushed back on allegations that it can secretly read users' private messages on WhatsApp, with the messaging platform's head, Will Cathcart, dismissing the claims as 'totally false'.

Cathcart's remarks were directly aimed at billionaire Elon Musk's claims that WhatsApp is 'not safe', and that users should rather switch to X's messaging service as a safer alternative for communication.

"This is totally false. WhatsApp can't read messages because the encryption keys are stored on your phone and we don't have access to them," Cathcart said in an X (formerly Twitter) post.

These sharp remarks from Meta and rival company executives come amid renewed scrutiny of message security on WhatsApp after an internation...