I am highly sceptical of Facebook's ethical stance on many issues. But we have to admit that some of the decisions here are not trivial. The report is not abou

I am highly sceptical of Facebook's ethical stance on many issues. But we have to admit that some of the decisions here are not trivial. The report is not about randomly monitoring messages, it's about messages that were reported by users. The executive actually puts the dilemma pretty well: > “WhatsApp is a lifeline for millions of people around the world,” the company said. “The decisions we make around how we build our app are focused around the privacy of our users, maintaining a high degree of reliability and preventing abuse.” These platforms are helping a lot of people, and they can't fix all man-made problems (i.e. crime, hate speech etc.). There is a lot of valid criticism against the way they are facilitating hidden discrimination, helping obscure political targeted influence and so on - but this issue is IMO not as contentious.