This article highlights all fundamental issues with #whatsapp business model but misses one particular issue, which actually made me remove WhatsApp from my primary phone: security exploits used for surveillance, as it was the case in 2019. The app is a closed-source binary blob that is analysed mostly by highly motivated and well-funded researchers, who sell exploits on zero-day market, leaving users exposed.
https://seirdy.one/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users.html
The story from 2019 that we should be talking about all the time:
"A security flaw in WhatsApp can be, and has been, exploited to inject spyware into victims' smartphones: all a snoop needs to do is make a booby-trapped voice call to a target's number, and they're in. The victim doesn't need to do a thing other than leave their phone on."
@kravietz Zuckbook and others are now trying to sue NSO Group out of existence. They are seemingly more concerned with their reputation than how it destroyed Kashoggi and others. See the Dissident.