After almost a decade, Facebook is looking at bringing Messenger back into the fold on smartphones. Facebook initially removed Messenger from its app in 2016, sending users who wanted to text to a ...

Messenger is finally making end-to-end encryption the default setting on all personal messages and calls, along with several other updates. It's good news for anyone concerned about their online ...

You might think that archaic chat program MSN Messenger was dead and buried. In 2013, Microsoft announced the service would be retired and gradually integrated into Skype. But the program has remained ...

To make its iPhone messaging app run better—especially on older phones—Facebook rewrote it from the ground up. The new version is going live now. Along the way, it supplemented its original text-based ...

If you’re one of the hundreds of millions using Facebook Messenger, then now would be a good time to think about alternatives. While the platform heralded a major security update this week, with the ...

If you’re one of Facebook Messenger’s 1.3 billion users, then the sudden WhatsApp backlash should serve as a stark warning. Yes, Messenger’s data harvesting is significantly more alarming than ...