Facebook abandons plan to sell ads in WhatsApp
(Android Central)

But it is still hoping to monetize the app through the Status feature... What you need to know Facebook is `backing away` from plans to sell ads inside of WhatsApp. The Wall Street Journal reports that the team working on the feature has been disbanded in recent months. The code they`d written into to WhatsApp has also been deleted. Facebook has reportedly abandoned efforts to sell ads inside WhatsApp, plans that resulted in co-founder Jan Koum leaving the group in 2018. According to the report: Facebook Inc. is backing away from efforts to sell ads in WhatsApp, in a retreat from a controversial plan that drove the creators of the popular messaging service to resign more than 18 months ago, according to people familiar with the matter. WhatsApp in recent months disbanded a team that had been established to find the best ways to integrate ads into the service, according to people familiar with the matter. The team`s work was then deleted from WhatsApp`s code, the people said...