Meta have confirmed they will be discontinuing a privacy feature for Instagram direct messaging in the coming weeks. The ...

But Twitter isn’t without weak spots, and private messaging has long been a problem for the company. Direct messages, or DMs, are often buggy and counterintuitive, and Twitter has treated its only way ...

Threads, the Meta Platforms Inc. social network that rivals Elon Musk’s X, is testing a new messaging feature for users to interact privately on the service. Private messages on Threads will be ...

End-to-end encryption is a way of sending messages to the intended recipients without anyone else, including tech companies, ...

Instagram will discontinue its end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging feature after May 8, 2026, confirmed Meta in a recent ...

Bitchat also promises end-to-end encryption for private messages, password protection to secure chat rooms, and ephemeral message storage only on device memory. You don't need to provide a phone ...

Private messaging apps are under scrutiny for enabling misinformation to spread unchecked, with a report highlighting their ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Suhas Subramanyam, alongside House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia, has initiated a formal inquiry into the Trump administration’s use of private ...

Dead phones during emergencies are dangerous, but discovering your “private” messages aren’t actually private? That’s a different kind of crisis entirely. A massive class-action lawsuit filed January ...

Moxie Marlinspike—the pseudonym of an engineer who set a new standard for private messaging with the creation of the Signal Messenger—is now aiming to revolutionize AI chatbots in a similar way. His ...