‘The biggest consumer fraud’: Telegram CEO claims WhatsApp is secretly reading your private messages

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has made a sharp attack on WhatsApp over the app’s promise of end-to-end encryption. Durov accused the company of not only reading users’ private messages but also sharing them with third-party services and called it the ‘biggest consumer fraud in history’.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Durov wrote, “WhatsApp’s “encryption” may be the biggest consumer fraud in history — deceiving billions of users. Despite its claims, it reads users’ messages and shares them with third parties.