By Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Meta executives proceeded with a plan to encrypt ...

Court filings show Meta executives warned in 2019 that encrypting Messenger could reduce child exploitation reporting to authorities.

Privacy and encryption are central themes in legal proceedings involving child safety against Meta and Apple this week.

Meta executives warned that encrypting Facebook and Instagram messages could reduce detection and reporting of child ...

Meta is at last bringing scheduled messages to WhatsApp, delivering on one of the app’s most-requested features.

It's the AI equivalent of a double text. Business Insider has learned Meta is training customizable chatbots to be more proactive and message users unprompted to follow up on past conversations. It ...

Meta will discontinue Messenger.com and the Messenger desktop app by April 2026, redirecting desktop users to ...

Zuckerberg favored being less restrictive on AI bots, internal Meta message says Meta 'declined to impose reasonable guardrails' - New Mexico attorney general Senior Meta official anticipated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. whatsapp logo - Photo Illustration by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images A new lawsuit claims that Meta's WhatsApp — the ...

The move comes a few months after Meta shut down Messenger’s stand-alone desktop apps for Windows and Mac.

In December 2025, Facebook users shared a rumor claiming Meta signed into policy a "new Facebook rule" allowing the company the rights to users' photos starting "tomorrow." According to the posts, a ...