Mumbai: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has criticized the 48 hours ban on most popular messaging app WhatsApp in Brazil and he requested users to use Facebook Messenger.

The CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has criticized the ban on WhatsApp. He attended a meeting in Brazil and in the press meet he has condemned the 48 hours ban on World’s most popular instant messaging app WhatsApp. As we know, few days back, a Brazilian court has passed an order to ban the WhatsApp for 48 hours after the Facebook-owned app failed to co-operate with a criminal investigation in a drug trafficking case.

After passing orders, the WhatsApp has been stopped for two days and by this incident, early 93 million Brazilian users had lost their instant communication of their friends for 48 hours. By responding to this, CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg criticized the ban on WhatsApp and on his Facebook page he said, “This is a sad day for Brazil. Until today, Brazil has been an Assistant in creating an open internet”

Mark Zuckerberg also requested that WhatsApp users will use their Facebook messenger for communication and chatting with friends until WhatsApp services are reestablished. WhatsApp has many users worldwide and as per reports, this most popular messaging app has more than 900 million users across the World over past few years since its initiation.

WhatsApp is currently most popular and world famous instant messaging app in which people are sending photos, videos and music clips also through this app. However, this is a good thing from Facebook CEO about WhatsApp Ban in Brazil.