Zuckerberg’s Facebook is reportedly working on a back-door content-scanner for WhatsApp, tantamount to a wiretapping algorithm - it will scan your messages before you send them and report anything suspicious.
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ckqdpf/zuckerbergs_facebook_is_reportedly_working_on_a/
https://www.ccn.com/news/zuckerberg-wiretap-whatsapp-libra/2019/07/30/
@Wetrix Fake news, apparently.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20585955 for details, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20587643 what seems to be the response of WhatsApp's VP.
@temporal agreed. I guess we'll have to let it play it out until the truth comes forth.
@Wetrix not saying to trust Facebook, or even defending it in general. Just saying that this particular article doesn't seem to be properly sourced, and the particular thing it ultimately references is neither about WhatsApp nor about defeating E2E for antiprivacy reasons.
There's plenty of damning stuff to accuse Facebook off that's actually confirmed.