WhatsApp just wanted to make a joke, but instead, it accidentally sparked a privacy panic. The Meta-owned messaging giant thought it was being cheeky when it posted on X, “People who end messages with ‘lol’, we see you, we honour you.” Cue the collective gasp of the internet. Within minutes, users were flooding the replies, asking how exactly WhatsApp was “seeing” anyone when it claims to run on end-to-end encryption.
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