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PR. They wanted to seem like the good guys, but they get your messages through backdoors like the automatic backup.

• modeless 7mo ago
  You're thinking of Apple. WhatsApp backups are not stored by Meta. Apple is the company that breaks their "end-to-end" encryption by backing up the encryption keys to their own servers.
  • topranks 7mo ago
    You can opt-in to encrypting those backups so Apple have no access.
    • modeless 7mo ago
      Yes. I believe a small percentage of Apple users do this. Unfortunately that doesn't prevent Apple from reading your messages from the backups of the vast majority of people you correspond with.