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The thing is that this can be triggered externally. It's not the user forwarding to another user, it's the company having a spy feature built in.
well it seems like they track the unencrypted metadata and share it with law enforcement. i wouldn't necessarily consider this breaking end to end encryption...
there is a separate issue with the "reporting" feature where the other end can voluntarily send your (decrypted) messages to facebook for content moderation. i dont think the article claimed that decrypted messages were being automatically sent...