Facebook (Meta) wants you to believe that they bought WhatsApp out of the goodness of their hearts.
Before them, it was an instant message platform that threatened to charge 99¢ a year. I never paid and neither did many others. Maybe some people did? But I’m not sure.
Then Facebook go and pay $21 billion for it and claim it’s private. What do you think? On top of that, the founder who just got paid is waving a red flag shouting from the rooftops, “don’t use it!”
Lawsuit filing https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/WhatsApp Petition.pdf
As concluded by a Commerce Department agent, “[t]here is no limit to the type of WhatsApp message that can be viewed by Meta.”
Reference for that is https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-28/us-ends-investigation-into-claims-whatsapp-chats-aren-t-private. I think this all proof in document. And that article only cite that agent (anon) and say not independent verify claim. But also investigation of agent “abruptly” stop by senior after those finding.
I think this lawsuit most for actually find out.
A US agency abruptly closed an investigation into allegations that Meta Platforms Inc. can access encrypted WhatsApp messages… a Commerce Department investigator… spoke on condition that they and the agent not be identified because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter and were concerned about retaliation.
That’s also concerning…
