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Facebook doesn't use e2e.
There is a private chat e2e feature, but then your chats don't show up on PC.
Yes, lets give Meta and Zuck te benefit of the doubt.
Block all Meta and commercial access or you will be part of a product.
This is an interesting point. If my server is hosted in California where abortion is legal, and some police dept from Alabama wants access to my message database, can I tell them to pound sand?
IIUC no. All of the US and some allied countries respect court orders. In general evidence can be collected worldwide as long as the crime was committed where it is a crime.
But IANAL.
Read the article guys, don't fall into the headline trap. Facebook is definitely a bad guy, but it's not the bad guy here.