Instagram is about to lose its optional end-to-end encryption feature. Without it, Meta can view every DM on Instagram. Mozilla has a petition to push the company to reverse this decision. [external petition link] https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/petitions/keep-encryption-for-instagram/
Tell Meta: Keep Encryption for Instagram Messages

Meta has quietly said it will end support for encrypted messaging on Instagram in a matter of weeks. Encryption helps ensure that what your messages stay between you and the person with whom you're communicating. When end-to-end encryption is enabled, no one – not even Meta – can snoop on you. Right now, hundreds of millions of people use Instagram to message friends, family, and communities. Privacy should be a default feature of the technology we rely on every day – not an optional extra, and not something that quietly disappears. That's why we're asking Meta to reverse its decision and continue to support encryption on Instagram.

Mozilla Foundation
@eff Is there any proof that message were E2E encrypted to begin with? Or did everyone just take Zucks word for it?
@grumpydad @eff
Why announce they're turning it off, then? They could have keep pretending it is E2EE and harvest all the precious data with it.
@Orca @eff Good point I guess. But otoh They could be trying to normalize comms channels not being encrypted and trying to appease governments that want to eavesdrop.