context: Instagram will stop supporting E2EE chats starting May 8th, according to a new notice on its help pages.
Meta hasn’t clearly explained why encrypted chats are being removed or what happens to existing conversations afterward, raising new concerns about privacy, data collection, and surveillance on the platform.
Source: https://proton.me/blog/instagram-end-to-end-encryption
Didn’t they just find that WhatsApp didn’t even have it to begin with? Maybe they’re pre-empting the “discovery” that Instagram never really had it