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rbastic2
Twitter engineer posts screenshot of his WhatsApp microphone usage. The fingerpointing begins as neither Google nor Facebook want to claim ownership of the problem. Surprise.
londons_explore
My guess: Whatever audio library they are using 'accesses the microphone' whenever checking capabilities of the phone (ie. Does the phone have a mic at all, and therefore should all the voice calling and voice messaging features be enabled).
FinnKuhn
WhatsApp's official statement regarding this can be found here: https://twitter.com/WhatsApp/status/1655989766431862785

"We believe this is a bug on Android that mis-attributes information in their Privacy Dashboard and have asked Google to investigate and remediate."

netsharc
I wonder if an app can spoof the ID they use and pretend to be WhatsApp.

I guess the Twitterer can test by disabling mic permissions for WhatsApp and check later if it's still "using" the microphone.

rany_
At any rate, doesn't this still mean that some application is using their microphone in this suspicious manner?