Starting October 1 2026, anyone using WhatsApp as a platform to reach their target audience will be charged by Meta for outbound messages. Until that date, it will have been free to do so within a 24-hour window opened by the user’s last message, meaning that as long as your chatbot (or human agent) was […] The post Meta Wants to Charge for WhatsApp Messages: Chatbot Builders Beware appeared first on ICTworks .