What Meta’s quiet retreat from encryption privacy on Instagram means

In 2019, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg penned a 3,000-word manifesto declaring a fundamental shift in the architecture of social media. “The future is private,” he wrote, pledging to weave end-to-end encryption through the fabric of Meta’s empire: Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. It was framed as an existential commitment to human rights in a digital age.

Seven years later, that future has been quietly rewritten.