alt Hacker News>I'm not aware of any news of them
Yet. Until they say "We delete these messages after X time and they are gone gone, and we're not reading them" Assume they are reading them, or will read them and the information just hasn't got out yet.
I mean we keep finding more and more cases where companies like FB and Google were reading messages years ago and it wasn't till now we found out.
> We delete these messages after X time
They never had the plaintext of the messages in the first place, so they don't need to delete them. That's what end-to-end encrypted means.