I’m leaving WhatsApp. It’s an integral part of the Meta / Facebook empire, which is currently being sued by 29 states for the harm that it causes to children. While WhatsApp claims end-to-end encryption, they retain your metadata, which forms part of your social graph which they then use as part of their marketing efforts.

What other product would you use from a company that designs their products specifically to addict young people?

Signal is a much better platform designed around protecting your privacy, which is open source, and owned by an independent nonprofit, the Signal Foundation. If you want to DM me, you’ll find me there, where I have the handle davemosk.18.

Join Signal, and I’ll see you on the other side!