FB’s advisor on the WhatsApp acquisition was a boutique investment firm headed at the time by former CIA director George Tenet. To this day I think that Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype (which was quite expensive at the time) was also made under the same auspices, i.e. to bring an entire social network under the control of a country’s intelligence services (in this case the US services). What I’m trying to say it’s that this is a well-known game that everyone is playing.