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That's an oxymoron. Apart from having a dedicated device, you can't really sandbox the app since it requires basic permissions to function that give access to core phone functions. See https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.tencent.mm/latest/
You can try to limit permissions of some features that you don't intend to use.
Hard for me to take anything they say seriously when they say Facebook does not contain any trackers:
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.facebook.katana/latest/
Edit: I'm not saying WeChat is clean, just that I don't exactly trust Exodus for tracker reporting.
Exodus does exactly what it's supposed to. It's your interpretation of the data that is flawed.
If you actually bothered to read, you would know that it shows 0 trackers because Facebook doesn't embed their trackers in the SDK, and inject them later once you grant them the permissions to the device, exactly the same way WeChat does.
I did read, and it changed nothing about what I said. Let's revisit: did it detect Facebook, which I think we can all agree is invasive, as having trackers? No? The "why" of it doesn't seem particularly relevant as we are just looking for trackers in apps.
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/9358-using-apps-with-known-trackers-with-no-google-play-services/6