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It usually (probably) isn't. Snapchat (meta) is reading your private messages and then sending problematic ones to the government.
If you don't like that, then you should be using a messaging system that's actually private. Which means, at a bare minimum, end-to-end encryption.
Snapchat is not owned by Meta
Not owned by meta yet
tangent, but:
and yet Facebook still snooped on Snapchat via MITM attacks
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/