Elon Musk’s upcoming X Chat app will rival WhatsApp with peer-to-peer encryption and won’t include “hooks” for advertising.

Facebook announced that it's ready to merge Messenger chat with Instagram, allowing people to communicate seamlessly across platforms. The move is part of Facebook's bigger plan to unify Messenger, ...

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With the Messenger desktop app shutting down, it's time to quickly save your Messenger desktop chats before they're gone forever.

In a bit of sad internet news, Meta has decided to axe the Facebook Messenger app for Windows and Mac computers on December 15 (2025). Ending the ability to make use of a separate window for all of ...

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

Meta has announced that it will be deprecating its Messenger apps on Windows and macOS on December 15. Here's how to ensure ...

Chat bots were central to Facebook Messenger’s strategy three years ago. Now they’re being hidden from view in the app along with games and businesses. Facebook Messenger is now removing the Discover ...

Facebook is making it easier for businesses to leverage its Messenger service on their own websites. The company in November 2017 first launched a new customer chat plugin that allowed customers to ...

The real standout feature is how your Messenger Room can live on your Facebook profile, enabling friends or family members to spontaneously drop in and hang out with you over the video chat. When he's ...

From virtual cocktail hours to online classrooms, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned Zoom into everyone’s go-to social network. Now Facebook wants to kick the video-conferencing interloper off its turf.

Instagram is the latest of Facebook’s services to gain support for its new group video chat feature, Messenger Rooms. Follow along for a look at how it works… Facebook announced and rolled out ...