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by FabHK 2347 days ago
The first article talks about Messenger only, not WhatsApp, and the second article claims the opposite of what you're insinuating, namely that they want to introduce E2EE across their apps:

> "The first reason I'm excited is moving more to end to end encryption by default in our products. People like this in WhatsApp. I think it's the direction we should be going in. I think there's an opportunity ... to have encryption work in a consistent way across the things that we're doing."

What they certainly analyse and presumably monetise is the metadata.