Featured image not showing when sharing on whatsapp

or it shows charactors like this https://zimbabweantisanctionsmovement.org/%f0%9d%97%9f%f0%9d%97%98%f0%9d%97%9a%f0%9d%97%94%f0%9d%97%9f-%f0%9d%97%a6%f0%9d%97%a2%f0%9d%97%9f%f0%9d%97%a8%f0%9d%97%a7%f0%9d%97%9c%f0%9d%97%a2%f0%9d%97%a1-%f0%9d%97%a7%f0%9d%97%a2-%f0%9d%97%a7/

WhatsApp, as it is operated by the same company, uses the same methods as Facebook for this type of information: the Open Graph format. The good thing is: you are already using this on your website. The og:image is also specified here. Unfortunately, I cannot see which plugin you use to add this information to your page.

Facebook has a debugger for Open Graph where you can see that an image is displayed there. would:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fzimbabweantisanctionsmovement.org%2F%25F0%259D%2597%259F%25F0%259D%2597%2598%25F0%259D%2597%259A%25F0%259D%2597%2594%25F0%259D%2597%259F-%25F0%259D%2 597%25A6%25F0%259D%2597%25A2%25F0%259D%2597%259F%25F0%259D%2597%25A8%25F0%259D%2597%25A7%25F0%259D%2597%259C%25F0%259D%2597%25A2%25F0%259D%2597%25A1-%25F0%259D%2597%25A7%25F0%259D%2597%25A2-%25F0%259D%2597%25A7%2F

The strange characters in the URL result from the different character set you are using for the titles as well as URLs. Normally this shouldn’t be a problem – it doesn’t seem to be for Facebook. I can’t judge how WhatsApp handles this.

So take a look to see if your image meets WhatsApp’s conditions: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/link-previews/

@threadi Thank you for the feedback. Let me use the link you provided. I will update will results.