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They dont work for what’s intended. Its an illusion to pull money from your content and your potential ad revenue.
Thats not getting into any of the other sociological effects of a huge amount of people getting their daily news from Facebook message headlines.
Its really not that hard to use SMS or signal anyhow. I’m not entirely against WhatsApp either although I dont think I would ever leave it installed on my device long term