Well, this is a transcendent level of evil: Facebook bought a VPN company and deployed it, in part, to spy on its competitor's users.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

It's a reminder that VPNs have their own risks, beyond technical ones if operated incompetently -- namely, that you have to trust the VPN company itself.

UPDATED to reflect which users were being spied on.

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch

A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users to study their behavior.

TechCrunch
@dangillmor we have constantly been told the Feds are listening in and monitoring all communications on social media and electronic communication gadgets in general. it is baffling albeit scary what social media giants would want with user's transcripts. what are the intentions for keeping and monitoring that information? they are not a security outfit because if they were, they would simply be a conduit for data exchange with the govt. rather the govt. is sanctioning them with law suits.