While it may be preaching to the choir here, this is a well written article with many salient points in wake of the WA changes coming into public consciousness. Worth sharing with those still hanging on.

WhatsApp’s main defense against the backlash has been “we cannot see your private messages… and neither can Facebook.” No such luck, though, if you’re a Messenger user. Facebook admits that it monitors the content sent in private messages between users. And Facebook definitely does share all its metadata with itself, another claim WhatsApp has contested for its own users and metadata.