[Thread] A former Facebook employee says Meta announced an "absurdly accelerated timeline" for e2ee messaging to preempt antitrust action and generate good PR (David Thiel/@elegant_wallaby)

David Thiel / @elegant_wallaby:

[Thread] A former Facebook employee says Meta announced an “absurdly accelerated timeline” for e2ee messaging to preempt antitrust action and generate good PR  —  Please stop with this. Child safety is not FUD, nor disingenuous. Here is what happened with Facebook’s haphazard E2EE plan, from someone who was there and familiar with the underlying systems. 1/