A coalition of researchers and cryptographers are urging The Guardian to retract a story it published last week which suggested the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp contained a backdoor. The article, published by the media group last Friday, was almost immediately met with criticism, first from WhatsApp which called the allegations false then from a collection of researchers who also refuted the claims. A spokesperson for The Guardian said the outlet had amended its article s use of the term backdoor in line with the response and footnoted the articles to acknowledge this.
Source: https://threatpost.com/coalition-of-cryptographers-researchers-urge-guardian-to-retract-whatsapp-story/123228/