Earlier this year, Meta was facing a major class-action case in a US court. The company is accused of misleading users with claims of end-to-end encryption while secretly giving access to private messages.
Although Meta has completely denied these allegations, but this controversy is gaining momentum again on X, in which Elon Musk has called WhatsApp unsafe for the users. Due to this, his old feud with Mark Zuckerberg has started again and a big debate has started regarding messaging privacy.
Responding to a viral post highlighting the legal case, Musk wrote, "Can't trust WhatsApp." In another post, he requested users to shift to his own platform, X, for more secure audio and video calls. This is not the first time we have seen Musk taking aim at Meta, he has often badmouthed Zuckerberg and his company's platform. Besides, X Chat has also been promoted as a more secure and private option.
Let us come to what the controversy is about. In the class-action lawsuit against WhatsApp, the company is accused of allowing employees, contractors and third parties to access private messages. The complaint claims that the internal systems of WhatsApp's parent company Meta can bypass encryption, allowing messages to be reviewed.
Can't trust WhatsApp https://t.co/Ts55gVXqkD
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2026
This time Musk is not alone. In a viral thread, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov also lashed out at WhatsApp, claiming the app's encryption could be misleading and accusing it of sharing user data with third parties. He wrote on X, WhatsApp's encryption could be the biggest consumer fraud in history. Despite its claims, it reads messages and shares them with third parties. Telegram has never done this and never will.
It is worth noting that Telegram does not offer end-to-end encryption by default. This standard chat uses cloud-based, which means that messages are stored on Telegram servers. Only its Secret Chats feature uses full end-to-end encryption, making its privacy model significantly different and less strong than WhatsApp's default encryption system.
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