Days after Meta was sued by over alleged false privacy claims by its chat app WhatsApp, the company has rolled out a new setting to protect users against cyber attacks.

WhatsApp already protects users’ chats with end-to-end encryption, which means that messages can only be read by the sender and receiver.

“If you turn this on, certain account settings will lock to the most restrictive settings, and it will limit how your WhatsApp works in some ways, like blocking attachments and media from people not i...