Starting December 15, users will no longer be able to log into the apps and will be automatically redirected to the Facebook website to access Messenger.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Years after Mark Zuckerberg said encrypted chats were coming to Messenger, it’s finally being enabled by default.

Meta is killing off Facebook Messenger’s dedicated Mac app and pushing all users to the Facebook website for their messaging needs instead.

Services like Meta-owned Whatsapp, Signal, and several other competitors already offer this type of encryption. Meta has been building and testing the feature for Messenger for a number of years and ...

After years of promises and limited tests, Meta has started rolling out default end-to-end encryption protection for Messenger. In an announcement, Mark Zuckerberg said that personal chats and calls ...