US reportedly pressuring Facebook to break Messenger’s encryption over MS-13 investigation

The US Department of Justice is reportedly trying to have Facebook break the end-to-end encryption of its popular Messenger chat app so that the government can spy on a suspect’s “ongoing voice conversations” in a criminal investigation related to the notorious MS-13 gang. Facebook has so far pushed back against the DoJ’s request, according to a new Reuters scoop on the situation.
End-to-end encryption makes it so that only the participants of a conversation can see the