What even are these low effort, uninformed conspiratorial comments saturating the comment section?

Sure, Meta can obviously read encrypted messages in certain scenarios:

- you report a chat (you're just uploading the plaintext)

- you turn on their AI bot (inference runs on their GPUs)

Otherwise they cannot read anything. The app uses the same encryption protocol as Signal and it's been extensively reverse engineered. Hell, they worked with Moxie's team to get this done (https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/).

The burden of proof is on anyone that claims Meta bypassing encryption is "obviously the case."

I am really tired of HN devolving into angry uninformed hot takes and quips.