Instagram, Facebook Messenger Won’t Have Default End-to-end Encryption Until 2023

Meta-owned Instagram and Facebook Messenger will not have End-to-end encryption until 2023, according to Antigone Davis, Meta’s head of safety.

She was the former head of Facebook for the same. Earlier the company announced through a blog post that, the end-to-end encryption for both platforms is likely to roll out in 2022.
Davis wrote in the Sunday Telegraph, “We’re taking our time to get this right and we don’t plan to finish the global rollout of end-to-end encryption by default across all our messaging services until sometime in 2023.”
She added, “to protect people’s private communications and keep people safe online.”

She wrote to the article, “Our recent review of some historic cases showed that we would still have been able to provide critical information to the authorities, even if those services had been end-to-end encrypted.”
Eventhough the encryption option does not come by default till now but the messages sent through Messenger and Instagram can be E2EE. However, another Meta product, WhatsApp which is the most popular instant messaging app supports E2EE by default.