WhatsApp’s ‘End-to-End Encryption by Default’ Claim Called Major Consumer Fraud by Pavel Durov

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has accused WhatsApp of perpetrating what he calls “the biggest consumer fraud in history,” alleging that the platform’s widely marketed end-to-end encryption (E2EE) claims are fundamentally misleading, leaving the private messages of billions of users exposed on unencrypted cloud servers. In a post published on April 9, 2026, Durov asserted that […]

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