Over one billion people use #Facebook Messenger every month. A rollout of end-to-end encryption on the messaging platform is a huge win for user privacy across the world. eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/meta

@eff yes, except for the fact that, as with WhatsApp, Facebook/Meta control the client apps at both ends of the E2EE link... so that means they can truthfully say that the communication is E2EE, while still harvesting the message content (via a separate link between the clients) for advertising purposes.

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@lightweight @eff Yes. It's hard to claim a victory for freedom when your just exchanging forms of captivity.

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