They treat this as if e2ee was the privacy grail but it’s only marketing to fool people believing they’re protected.

The actual contents of the messages aren’t as important for privacy. It’s the Metadata and a ton of other measures rhay signal implements in their family of protocols.

Talking about e2ee and call it private shows ignorance in what privacy entails.

Your address book is uploaded to Facebook servers when you use Whatsapp. And each time you interact, they know with who and link this information with other profiles and users of the Meta products.

They aren’t E2EE so all messages and activity are recorded. They are subject to to very different rules than regular chats or groups.