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. Telegram has…

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