Ok

The client does

I work at Meta and interface with WhatsApp enough to know a couple things. First of all, data is encrypted at rest; that’s not even a WhatsApp thing, that’s literally how our infra works (it’s actually an efficiency thing, since deletions requires only deleting the key). So the “source” of the article saying

“Meta can and does view and store all the text messages, photographs, audio and video recordings” in an unencrypted format.

Is either lying or wrong.

Second of all, the encryption is legit. The only time “Meta employees” and “Contractors” are seeing your message content is when someone reports your message; because the person reporting it is sending a decrypted copy.

It may be true that there is some sort of device-level backdoor on your phone, or possibly that there’s a remote switch of some sort to send a second copy of the message in decrypted format for some targets, but I have not heard or seen this.

Fyi I use Signal and not WhatsApp, but in general I don’t think this article holds much weight

It’s not that I treat them equally, but I’m happy to see people fighting for change, if that makes sense

Accelerationist here. I think it’s more of a coping mechanism. I basically support all protestors and people motivated to make change, regardless of which side they’re on.

Ok bozo

Does anyone have a good compilation of these headline hypocrisies?

Because these are good questions, I’ll answer some;

Physically weak

Humans are incredible long distance runners. We did a lot of hunting by “Chase it until it collapses”

9 months/15 years

Our brains take a loooooong time to mature, but it’s worth it. We can plan ahead without relying on survival instincts, and we keep making amazing discoveries like fire and clothes

I don’t believe you’re spending all your time “overthinking” or “doing chores”. Stop bullshitting yourself. Try harder.

While we’re at it, I love that you let me customize the settings via a config, but for the love of god make the default config the best it can possibly be