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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2026
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WhatsApp is probably the harder Meta app to quit.
I've had plenty of people say "But that's different, it's E2EE", but it's a closed-source black box that almost certainly has a backdoor built in already.
Show them this
https://gizmodo.com/trump-admin-closes-investigation-into-alleged-backdoor-for-whatsapp-report-2000751760
It's E2E but there's a 3rd E. And they send material to subcons for AI labelling, so most likely low wages countries with sketchy checks.