You make a fair point. Words are wind, as they say. When I read the description in the article describing workers at Meta requesting access from "engineering," I did wonder: how come this is the first we are hearing of this? Meta's a big company. Nobody was gossiping about the fact that employees could read users' messages? Seems like we would have heard about it by now if it was true.

On the other hand: isn't WhatsApp closed source? Aren't users already playing trust me bro with them?