“Instagram has granted the government access to all group chats, allowing them to see users’ messages”
What FACTLY found
According to the existing Instagram privacy policy, there are no clauses pertaining to granting the government, access to all group chats. However, the policy states that Meta (Instagram’s parent company) shares users’ data with the government in response to legal requests or court orders in accordance with applicable law. Meta also mentioned that users can even enable end to end encryption for individual and group chats
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 4 December 2023. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 21 December 2023, 17 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/reel/C0bgDPsPLiD/
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This check was done by FACTLY, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.