Comment by gruez
15 hours ago
>And if ever that comes to light, precisely nobody will be surprised.
The amount of ambient cynicism on the internet basically makes this a meaningless statement. You could plausibly make the same claim for tons of other conspiracy theories, eg. JFK was assassinated by the CIA/FBI, Bush did 9/11, covid was intentionally engineered by the chinese/US government, etc.
Meta storing WhatsApp messages requires one mental leap: they found a secret way to hoover up WhatsApp messages. Everything else is their MO, including breaking systems to their advantage and having absolutely no scruples.
On the other hand, Occam's razor can barely keep up with the mental gymnastics required to paint Bush (or even Cheney) as the mastermind behind 9/11.