twofort

Tho best response would have probably been to ignore it, initial request was equally condescending IMHO.

Ok, maybe not remove it completely, but start tampering with it. And i quote the article:

   Because messages are end-to-end encrypted, to comply with the law WhatsApp says it would have break encryption for receivers, as well as “originators”, of messages.

Also Telegram is not encrypted by default, so it's not a better alternative in that sense.

You may dislike facebooks business practices, but they are in the right on this one.

You support privacy yet want to see and to end encryption removed (if the article is correct) and propose moving to a platform that in this sense is less secure from eavesdropping? OK.

Besides banning WhatsApp won't help with fake news - which ever dominant platform comes to replace it will suffer the same fate. It just so happens that everyone is on WhatsApp atm, so that's where everything happens. Including fake news.

Or it could also be that people are more often clicking on recent links or searching for "something something 2021". I know I usually give higher preference to links with more recent date attached as that just-contains-what-you-want site from 2010 will potentially be outdated by now. Of course it depends on subject of your search, but id imagine it's true more often than not in big scale.