Elon Musk, Pavel Durov Slam WhatsApp As Lawsuit Claims Private Chats Were Leaked

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a recent episode of allegations against Meta, tech moguls Elon Musk and Pavel Durov questioned the privacy claims of WhatsApp, after a class-action case was filed against the instant messaging platform in the United States. The Tesla CEO and Telegram CEO took to X on April 9, 2026, to criticise WhatsApp. Musk tweeted, “Can’t trust WhatsApp.” While Durov said, “WhatsApp’s encryption may be the biggest consumer fraud in history — deceiving billions of users.”The Telegram founder added, “Despite its claims, it reads users’ messages and shares them with third parties. Telegram has never done this — and never will.”

Lawsuit Against Meta Alleges Unauthorised Access To MessagesAccording to Top Class Actions, a legal complaint was filed against Meta on April 7, accusing its instant messaging service, WhatsApp, of allowing internal teams and internal contractors to access the private user data chats without their consent. Reportedly, plaintiffs Brian Y. Shirazi and Nida Samson claimed that WhatsApp, along with partners Accenture, has intercepted, shared, and stored user messages that were meant to be confidential, as per Meta’s safety policies. Moreover, the filing highlighted that the companies have misrepresented the messaging tool as a secure and end-to-end encrypted platform while allowing access behind the users’ backs. Whistlerblow Adds Fuel To The FireAs per the report, the lawsuit has cited whistleblower accounts indicating that employees and third-party contractors had managed to access message content that users thought was protected by encryption. These practices contradict WhatsApp’s policies as a privacy-first messaging platform, raising concerns about how user data can be managed. The plaintiffs accused both Meta and Accenture of breaching contract, violating California privacy laws, false advertising, fraud, data laws, and unfair competition. Shirazi and Samson reportedly want to represent a nationwide class of WhatsApp users who received and sent messages on the instant messaging service between April 5, 2016, and the present.