I was all prepared to answer this with "so Reuters reporting something makes it true?", only to discover that, in fact, Reuters reported no such thing. Reuters

I was all prepared to answer this with "so Reuters reporting something makes it true?", only to discover that, in fact, Reuters reported no such thing. Reuters makes two claims: 1) The FBI talked to Apple (duh) 2) An unannounced plan to implement fully E2EE backups was no longer discussed with the FBI at their next meeting Both of those things might be true! Reuters isn't known for just making stuff like this up, like, say Bloomberg, but the article specifically says: "When Apple spoke privately to the FBI about its work on phone security the following year, the end-to-end encryption plan had been dropped, according to the six sources. Reuters could not determine why exactly Apple dropped the plan." So we've got an unannounced product, which the FBI didn't like, which Apple stopped talking to the FBI about (according to some leakers at the FBI). This does not add up to "Apple dropped plans due to pressure from [the] FBI/DOJ". It adds up to "secretive company discusses plans with secretive agency, and some stuff about that conversation leaked".