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That might have been possible before now but Meta have enabled E2E encryption recently which prevents that.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/meta-announces-end-end...

TFA is explicitely in regards to how chats can be reported, and forwarded to reviewers that work for Meta. E2EE means Meta can't review the messages on their own, but there's no protection for one user in the chat reporting it, at which point the app automatically flags and forwards the messages in question.

> WhatsApp messages are so secure, [Zuckerburg] said, that nobody else — not even the company — can read a word.

> WhatsApp emphasizes this point so consistently that a flag with a similar assurance automatically appears on-screen before users send messages: “No one outside of this chat, not even WhatsApp, can read or listen to them.”

> these hourly workers use special Facebook software to sift through millions of private messages, images and videos.

> The workers have access to only a subset of WhatsApp messages — those flagged by users and automatically forwarded to the company as possibly abusive

And why should I trust Meta to do this honestly?

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