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Weaken/remove encryption, and Facebook will instantly be branded Orwellian. Enforce encryption, and it becomes a lot harder to deal with bad actors on the platform. There are no winners here.

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Tech This Week | Facebook services integration comes with trade-offs

Once WhatsApp and Instagram (and Oculus) became sufficiently big, it was time to integrate these properties into the...

4 Oct 2020 10:32 PM IST

Facebook and Facebooks Messenger Kids app icons are displayed on an iPhone in New York, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. Messenger Kids lets kids under 13 chat with friends and family. It displays no ads and lets parents approve who their children message. (Photo: AP)

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Facebook adds more parental control to Messenger Kids

Parents can now see recent contacts, chat history, and check who their child is chatting with.

5 Feb 2020 6:09 AM IST

The feature began rolling out to the Messenger app tailored for Android-powered smartphones in March and will head to Messenger on iPhones next week, according to Facebook. (Photo | Facebook)

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Warning messages will pop-up on Facebook Messenger if you're chatting...

The safety notices will pop up if activity taking place in the background is deemed suspicious by artificial...

21 May 2020 8:37 PM IST

The study is the latest highlighting Facebooks challenge of keeping its core youth audience, while adding older users. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Snapchat challenging Facebook among US youth: survey

Facebook has launched a Messenger Kids application for users under 12, with parental controls.

1 March 2018 2:46 PM IST

The Messenger Kids app now allows kids to send friend requests. (Photo: ANI)

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Facebook announces new update for Messenger Lite Android

Lite is a slimmed down version of Messenger.

6 Dec 2018 12:25 PM IST

Facebook belives that providing more granular reporting options in Messenger makes it faster and easier to report things for their Community Operations team to review.

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Facebook makes reporting content on Messenger easier

If users are facing some kind of issue, then it is advisable to use these new reporting tools.

15 May 2018 7:17 PM IST

Mark Zuckerberg took to stage, with a lot of stuff that he promised wont allow repetition of such a mistake on a large scale. (Photo: Facebook)

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All you need to know from Facebook's F8 2018 conference

The two-day event was initiated with a lot of new announcements both new products and revision of existing ones.

2 May 2018 10:42 AM IST

Silicon Valley tech firms are pouring money into augmented reality, a mix of the real and digital worlds best known from the game Pokemon Go. (Photo: Facebook)

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Facebook to use augmented reality to draw ads to Messenger app

Facebook is launching a new toolkit for software developers to make augmented reality features.

2 May 2018 9:20 AM IST

Roskomnadzors head, Alexander Zharov, said in a letter published on the regulators website that time was running out for Telegram to provide the necessary information.

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Iran orders Internet providers to block Telegram

The government said Telegram and other foreign messaging apps can obtain licenses to operate with their databases...

1 May 2018 8:23 AM IST

$Yahoo disclosed that as part of its investigation into the prior breach, it had received data files from law enforcement \that a third party claimed was Yahoo user data.\$ Technology

Yahoo Messenger to shut down on July 17

The users who are continuing to use the messaging service will be redirected to Squirrel, a new group messaging...

10 Jun 2018 2:05 PM IST

Facebook Messenger can now translate your messages to help reduce the communication barrier. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Facebook Messenger will now automatically translate messages

Facebook Messenger's M bot will pop up to automatically translate such messages between Spanish and English.

24 Jun 2018 12:45 PM IST

Social media and the sharing economy have created opportunities by leveraging online networks to build trust and remove market barriers. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Blocking of apps like WhatsApp under consideration in India

Witnessing the worsening scenaria around the nation, the DoT is mulling over blocking message sharing mobile apps.

6 Aug 2018 8:24 PM IST