Since its inception. The founder worked for Twitter (a company that has little worries about user privacy) and the first group placing money on Signal was Radio Free Asia (literally an CIA-front).
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Could you share any links referring to those ex-Whatsapp employees showing that the company can read e2e encrypted messages? Discounting the "report message" function ofc, since in that case you are the one sharing a copy of your keys for the last batch of messages to WhatsApp. I believe there is an ongoing lawsuit against Meta that claims e2e encryption in WhatsApp can be bypassed by the company, but I'd be pleased to look at any evidence I may have missed.
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