‘Can’t Trust WhatsApp’: Elon Musk Slams Meta as Class-Action Lawsuit Alleges Secret Interception of Private Messages by Accenture and Third Parties
April 10, 2026 – A newly filed class-action lawsuit has thrown Meta’s privacy promises into question, alleging that the company secretly allowed employees, contractors, and other third parties to read, intercept, and store private WhatsApp messages without user consent.
The lawsuit directly challenges WhatsApp’s long-standing marketing of “end-to-end encryption,” which the platform has historically assured ensures that “only you and the recipient can read it.” According to the complaint, this promise was a lie.
The allegations were first highlighted on X by user @cb_doge (DogeDesigner), who wrote: “WhatsApp’s ‘end-to-end encrypted’ privacy is a total lie. New class-action lawsuit just dropped: Meta secretly let employees, contractors like Accenture, and third parties read, intercept, and store your private messages WITHOUT consent.”
The suit, reported by Top Class Actions on April 7, 2026, claims that Meta allowed both internal staff and external contractors—including the global consulting giant Accenture—to access user communications. The filing argues that Meta continued to market its platform as secure and private even as these alleged breaches took place.
Elon Musk, owner of X and a frequent critic of Meta, weighed in on the controversy with a characteristically blunt post: “Can’t trust WhatsApp.” His comment quickly went viral, amassing over 17 million views, 114,000 likes, and 21,500 reposts.
In response to the growing outcry, WhatsApp has rejected the allegations as “categorically false and absurd.” The company insists that all messages remain fully encrypted and inaccessible to anyone except the sender and recipient.
Nevertheless, the lawsuit has reignited a global debate over digital privacy and trust in Meta’s platforms. Privacy advocates argue that even if technical encryption exists, backdoor access for employees or contractors renders those protections meaningless.
The controversy has also drawn comment from decentralized privacy projects. In a post reacting to the news, @BeldexCoin wrote: “When systems are designed with centralized access and control points, this is bound to happen. Decentralized. Encrypt. And build privacy-first infrastructure.”
As the class-action suit proceeds, questions remain about how much access Meta truly granted to third parties—and whether billions of WhatsApp users were ever as private as they were led to believe.
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