Elon Musk says WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption can’t be trusted, Mark Zuckerberg’s company calls it ‘absurd’

Elon Musk reignited his rivalry with Meta on Thursday by saying he “can’t trust WhatsApp,” the popular personal messaging app. The billionaire was questioning WhatsApp in light of a new class action lawsuit filed against the company, which claims that the Meta-owned app intercepted private messages of users despite its claims of bulletproof end-to-end encryption and even shared them with third parties like Accenture.

Responding to a post on X about the lawsuit, Musk wrote, “Can’t trust WhatsApp”. In another post, the billionaire urged users to switch to X Chat for messaging and voice/video calls, saying it “comes with this great benefit of actual privacy.”