The Next Web: “Facebook confirms it spies on your Messenger conversations”

So what? I hate WhatsApp hoaxes as much as the next person, but compromising privacy is no solution to that. There is crap and misinformation in other media, too (mail, IM apps, blogs, comments), and that does not justify invasions of privacy.

Is Facebook (or Apple, or Google, or Telegram) going to determine what qualifies as “fake news”, “political propaganda”, and “misinformation”? God help us.

The way forward is to denounce always stupid chains, to demand sources and URLs for everything, and to educate newbies. Not surveillance.

This falsely “balanced” paragraph in the article is very dishonest.