Facebook denies report claiming WhatsApp messages are not end-to-end encrypted

A ProPublica report titled “How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users” claimed that WhatsApp has more than 1,000 contract workers in Austin, Texas Dublin and Singapore where they examine millions of pieces of users’ content.

WhatsApp has always boasted of its end-to-end encryption system that lets the private conversation remain only between the sender and the receiver. The Facebook-owned messaging app has time and again reiterated that nobody apart from the people involved in the conversation can access it, not even WhatsApp or its parent company Facebook. However, a new report had exposed some shocking details about WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption method. The report stated that contrary to the company’s claims, the messages are not end-to-end encrypted. Facebook has now issued a new statement refuting the claims of the report. “WhatsApp provides a way for people to report spam or abuse, which includes sharing the most recent messages in a chat. This feature is important for preventing the worst abuse on the internet. We strongly disagree with the notion that accepting reports a user chooses to send us is incompatible with end-to-end encryption,” WhatsApp said in a statement to Android Central