#meta encryption

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Mark Fuckerberg strikes again with a plan to end Instagram's end-to-end message encryption on May 8th, 2026. We're not helpless against this, though.

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THE REASONING

Meta claims it's because nobody uses it and for "safety" reasons. I think by now, we all know that's blatantly untrue. They want to use our messages to train their AI. And probably to be able to read messages of people who are at risk, shall we say, like journalists and such.

It also goes without saying that everybody uses encryption when it comes to messaging. If you're using the messaging feature, you're using the encryption by default.

Instagram's own Help Center literally explains the benefit of E2EE.

This post by @d0esery summarises it quite well.

Here's The Economic Times Article.

And here's the Proton Blog Post.

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WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?

Like I said, we're not helpless in this. Fight For The Future has an open letter calling for all major platforms to implement end-to-end encryption as a default feature. They also have a lot of privacy and technology related projects that are worth checking out.

SIGN THE OPEN LETTER HERE