[ang_cire]

Ah yes, those hilarious US Americans, not wanting to trust all their chat communication to Meta...

Edit: literally just saw this article afterwards:

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/dubai-police-spied-private-wha...

UAE government getting access to private WhatsApp messages (presumably in conjunction with Meta).

[throawayonthe]

what's more likely:

- whatsapp/signal encryption was broken without anyone noticing all in order to nab... some guy posting pictures of bomb damage

- someone snitched and the govt lied