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WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted, which means only the sender and receiver can read them. Neither Facebook nor WhatsApp can directly view your private messages, calls, photos, or videos. Encryption ensures that the content is scrambled during transmission and can only be decoded on the recipient’s device.

However, Meta may collect limited metadata like contact info, usage patterns, and device details for service improvement and safety. Also, if messages are reported by users, those specific messages can be reviewed.

So, private chats are not openly visible to Facebook, but some indirect data and reported content may be accessed. 

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No, Facebook servers cannot see the messages that you send over WhatsApp. Even the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerbergconfirmedthisduringhis testimony before the US Congress. He said that "Facebook systems do not see the content of messages being transmitted over WhatsApp."

Recently, Facebook’s data breach scandal has raised many eyebrows as Facebook owns the world’s most popular messaging app WhatsApp. People were concerned about their privacy and thinking of data breach on WhatsApp, too.

The conversations on the messaging platform WhatsApp are fully encrypted and it is shared only between users due to encryption feature on WhatsApp. However, such news were earlier doing the rounds on social media that Facebook scans users' chats and photos on Messenger.

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