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Governo mantém classificação 14+ para WhatsApp e Facebook Messenger

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://capitaldigital.com.br/governo-mantem-classificacao-14-para-whatsapp-e-facebook-messenger/

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/12/meta-launches-ai-anti-scam-tools-across-whatsapp-facebook-an-xcxwbn/

Meta Launches AI Anti-Scam Tools Across WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger

#AI #Facebook #WhatsApp #MetaInc #FacebookMessenger #Cybersecurity #Cybercrime #Scams #OnlineSafety #SocialMedia #BigTech

Reuters: Meta executive warned Facebook Messenger encryption plan was ‘so irresponsible’, shows court filing. “Meta executives proceeded with a plan to encrypt the messaging services connected to its Facebook and Instagram apps despite internal warnings that it would hinder the social media giant’s ability to flag child-exploitation cases to law enforcement, according to internal company […]

Reuters: Meta executive warned Facebook Messenger encryption plan was ‘so irresponsible’, shows court filing. “Meta executives proceeded with a plan to encrypt the messaging services connected to its Facebook and Instagram apps despite internal warnings that it would hinder the social media giant’s ability to flag child-exploitation cases to law enforcement, according to internal company […]

Facebook Messenger’s desktop app is no more

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/facebook-messengers-desktop-app-is-no-more/

#meta #facebook #facebookmessenger #messenger #metanews #facebooknews #messengerdesktop #desktopapp #tech #technews #messengerrip #facebookrip #pcapps

Fast Company: This messaging mecca integrates Slack, WhatsApp, and Telegram. “The app is called Beeper​. It can connect to all the major messaging platforms: Google Messages, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, Google Chat, Facebook Messenger, Signal, LinkedIn, X, Discord, and Slack.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/19/fast-company-this-messaging-mecca-integrates-slack-whatsapp-and-telegram/

Declaring Metapendence – WhatsApp

While I have never used WhatsApp, Meta’s messaging app (outside of Facebook Messenger, which is a different kettle of fish), there are many around the world who rely on it to communicate with friends, family, and even business partners and customers. WhatsApp boasts of its end-to-end encryption for user privacy, but the company has shared user data with Facebook and 3rd party providers, including user phone numbers. Now, WhatsApp is starting to include advertising as a way to monetize the […]

https://medi-nerd.com/2025/06/17/declaring-metapendence-whatsapp/

Finde den passenden Messenger: Unser Schnell-Check zu Sicherheit, Datenschutz und Bedienung zeigt, welche Messenger überzeugen und welche nicht. 👇

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/die-grosse-messenger-uebersicht-kompakt-kritisch-direkt/

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#briar #conversations #deltachat #discord #element #facebookmessenger #googlemessages #imessage #jami #line #monal #session #signal #simplex #snapchat #telegram #teleguard #threema #viber #whatsapp #wire

Facebook’s fading utility

Management at Meta should be thankful to Elon Musk for his ongoing destruction of usefulness at what used to be Twitter–because without that singular feat of self-harm, Facebook might now be unchallenged as the major social network to have taken the most dents from a hammer in its own hands.

This week has had me thinking of Facebook’s decline more than usual, thanks to the start of the suit brought by the Federal Trade Commission in 2020 that seeks to hit the “undo” button on the company’s previously-government-blessed purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp.

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop that trial over months of unsuccessful sucking up to the Trump administration, outlined at length Tuesday by the Wall Street Journal, that left him looking like more of a self-serving loser than he already did after his post-election pivot to being a MAGA sympathizer.

But this problem of Facebook decay has been going on for years. In retrospect, the two Zuckerberg appearances I saw at MWC in February of 2016 should have been my own warning.

One, pictured here, had him gushing at a Samsung event about how virtual reality would change how we experience the world; the other, an onstage Q&A, had him holding forth about Facebook’s plans to bring broadband to the developing world, among other things.

Nine years later, consumer adoption of VR still hasn’t happened, while Zuckerberg (who in that Q&A said “Facebook isn’t a company that hits a roadblock and then gives up”) has acted as if those connectivity projects were Facebook journalism initiatives by scrapping them in 2022.

Facebook itself, meanwhile, has become a vastly less pleasant place than it was in 2016. The default feed is so overrun with ads and suggested pages and groups–with frequent outbreaks of AI-generated slop–that it has become difficult to keep up with friends, the reason for Facebook’s entire existence.

And the new, friends-only tab that Zuckerberg just introduced as a return to “OG Facebook” turns out to be available for now only on the platform’s Android and iOS apps, not its iPad app or the desktop Web site that was the real original Facebook. The latter is also the one Facebook interface I can count to remind me of which friends have birthdays today.

I can, however, rely on Facebook’s Android app to show me notifications featuring my brother’s profile picture even when he doesn’t figure in any of them (he hasn’t posted there since maybe December for reasons similar to my own) and to treat me to weird experiments in #engagement hacking like “Blast to the past” suggestions to revisit years-ago posts.

I haven’t quit using Facebook or Instagram entirely–so many friends and family remain on those platforms, plus I have an occupational obligation to stay current in their workings. But I have cut back on my own posting there almost as much as my brother has.

And I have outright quit trying to do anything with the public Facebook page that once represented one of my major forms of reader outreach. I turned off messaging there after getting fed up with all of the scams sent my way and then posted an I’m-done-here signoff March 19 in which I invited people to look me up on Bluesky and Patreon.

There is, however, one Facebook app that I continue to use fairly regularly: Messenger, which doesn’t subject me to algorithmically-pushed crap from third parties and does provide effective privacy via end-to-end encryption. Messenger also looks like the part of Facebook least likely to help the company make money off me, which is not nothing these days.

#AISlop #engagement #facebook #FacebookFeed #FacebookMessenger #FTCVMeta #Instagram #MarkZuckerberg #meta #metaverse #MWC #Zuck

AUSTIN

My phone has been buzzing with new-message notifications since I woke up way too early Friday morning to fly here for SXSW. That’s the fault not of my moderately overloaded social schedule, but of how the messaging choices of SXSW friends and acquaintances have spilled over into five different apps: Meta’s WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, the open-source Signal, and Google’s Messages and Google Voice apps.

And because I have landed in five different group chats–two in WhatsApp, two in Facebook Messenger, one in Signal–it’s a small miracle that I haven’t replied-all to the wrong message so far.

Then somebody asked in one of these chats: “Are there any Telegram channels?”

I think she was referring to the sharing options of a social-media app somebody else had just promoted, but I also know some people here are using that messaging app because the others apparently aren’t enough.

One takeaway this leaves me: There is so much to be said for e-mail, which works regardless of what service or app you use. It’s been there all along–as many people have observed, e-mail is the original social network–and everybody here should have access to it on every device they brought, not just smartphones. And yet my inbox has seen the fewest new messages today compared to any of the above platforms.

On the other hand, e-mail lacks typing indicators and emoji tapbacks–which brings up my other takeaway, the pathetic obsolescence of Google Voice as a messaging client.

Set aside that this sorry excuse for a texting app doesn’t support RCS and therefore sends and receives every message unencrypted; Google hasn’t even shipped the tapback support that it added to Messages for Android years ago. Lately, that evokes the joke I saw Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers throw out in a video appearance at a Comcast event last month when he reminisced about 2014-style texting: “You had to take a photo of your thumb and text that.”

Google should be embarrassed about the cobwebbed state of Google Voice. But its years-long streak of messaging-strategy incoherence suggests it long ago lost any capacity for shame in this market.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/03/09/staying-in-touch-with-friends-at-sxsw-is-more-of-a-messaging-mess-than-ever/

#Austin #FacebookMessenger #GoogleVoice #groupChat #iMessage #messageGroup #phoneNotifications #Signal #sxsw #Telegram #WhatsApp

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😹 " Have you checked the #meowcable yet?"

#CatITSupport #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #FacebookMessenger #Occulus #meowcable #nyanyanyanyaSupport

What iF... #Meta #Instagram #Facebook #FacebookMessenger #Occulus just... Stayed down? 🤔

Would anyone.. notice, besides Russia? #NoNews

@genkin

#FreeWebHostingCulture 💯
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Not a #Meta, #Facebook, #Instagram, #FacebookMessenger, #WhatsApp, #Oculus #GChat user .... so 🔥🎁¯\_(ツ)_/¯🎁🔥

Hey @jerry 💯😆👀👀🤫

Aplicaciones que espero jamás llegar a instalar:
🔹#Sosafe
🔹#Tiktok
🔹#FacebookMessenger

Aplicaciones que espero jamás llegar a instalar:
🔹#Sosafe
🔹#Tiktok
🔹#FacebookMessenger

Aplicaciones que espero jamás llegar a instalar:
🔹#Sosafe
🔹#Tiktok
🔹#FacebookMessenger

Aplicaciones que espero jamás llegar a instalar:
🔹#Sosafe
🔹#Tiktok
🔹#FacebookMessenger

Aplicaciones que espero jamás llegar a instalar:
🔹#Sosafe
🔹#Tiktok
🔹#FacebookMessenger

Make Use Of: Facebook Messenger Icons and Symbols: What Do They Mean? https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-do-the-different-facebook-messenger-circles-mean-and-more/ #Tech #MakeUseOf #TechNews #IT via @morganeogerbc #FacebookMessenger #SocialMediaTips #SocialMedia #OnlineChat #ChatClient #VideoChat #Facebook

Make Use Of: Facebook Messenger Icons and Symbols: What Do They Mean? https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-do-the-different-facebook-messenger-circles-mean-and-more/ #Tech #MakeUseOf #TechNews #IT via @morganeogerbc #FacebookMessenger #SocialMediaTips #SocialMedia #OnlineChat #ChatClient #VideoChat #Facebook

Make Use Of: Facebook Messenger Icons and Symbols: What Do They Mean? https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-do-the-different-facebook-messenger-circles-mean-and-more/ #Tech #MakeUseOf #TechNews #IT via @morganeogerbc #FacebookMessenger #SocialMediaTips #SocialMedia #OnlineChat #ChatClient #VideoChat #Facebook

Make Use Of: Facebook Messenger Icons and Symbols: What Do They Mean? https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-do-the-different-facebook-messenger-circles-mean-and-more/ #Tech #MakeUseOf #TechNews #IT via @morganeogerbc #FacebookMessenger #SocialMediaTips #SocialMedia #OnlineChat #ChatClient #VideoChat #Facebook

Who knew that the latest #PeriodTracker app was named #FacebookMessenger & #Threads ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One clever tactic used by the attackers involves deleting the stolen cookies after extracting them. This effectively logs the victims out of their own accounts.

#Cybersecurity #Meta #FacebookMessenger #Stealer #Phyton

https://cybersec84.wordpress.com/2023/09/11/vietnamese-hackers-use-facebook-messenger-to-deploy-python-based-stealer/

Here is a weird post about #FreeWebHosting #culture that bridges 20+years.

iF I told you 'Hey, you should really look out for those #Tripod & #AngelFire web hosting users due to their #GangStalking #IDS, /s' from 20+yrs ago but just replaced the web hosting providers with #Instagram & #Facebook, what would you of thought about those #FreeWebHosting users today who are complacent with their #FreeWebHosting #culture of #GangStalking being #investigated
🤔

🔮 : 🔎 Certain #ClosedWeb vs. #OpenWeb things would stand out due to Public Scrutiny. Why, aren't you using the #PeriodTrackingApp called #FacebookMessenger currently being used for tracking #Abortion related #crimes? Amazing things started to happen when the #ClosedWeb #SocialMedia place got #OpenWeb'D. Init? 👀👀 🔍

#PrivateFacebookForums made #Public and the list of names involved in #GangStalking is quite effective and prosecutors love using 18 U.S.C. Sec 241 to hand out 5, 10, 15 to Life Sentences for this #GangStalking behavior btw.

For one example of this #GangStalking behavior coupled with illegal #Surveillence by the #Landlord found by the residents of a whole neighborhood, btw:

.... What iF your #Landlord was disclosing when their #Tenants were leaving _their_ residence for coordination of #BreakIns using #SocialMedia to harass the #renter? That would be pretty stupid based on how #ediscovery at #Meta works.

🔎 WOT iF the #Police just looked the other way because this was under $10k of theft? WOT iF #BodyCam footage was correlated with #PoliceReports to uncover this? 💯🔍

#FacebookMessenger is not #private

#FunFact : #MarkZuckerburg lied to you about #privacy

He told you earlier in his career '#DumbFscks shouldn't trust #Meta.'

#MARCOM lied to you about #Privacy & #Advertising networks you call #SocialMedia. Duh.

Not everyone has a #Meta account

Not everyone has a #Facebook

Not everyone has an #Instagram

Not many people even know what a ' #Metaverse ' even IS let alone visit it outside of #Meta per the huge losses at the #VR #AR #MR division of #RealityLabs there in Menlo Park, CA.

#Prosecutors are already using this #OneWeirdMARCOM trick, 'saying everyone is on something ' when in fact, No, very few people ACTUALLY use this. Did you miss the #RICO documentary about #MarkZuckerburg in 2010 or something? 🤔

Now they are just weaponizing certain states laws on #abortion to go after your #Mothers and #Daughters for #abortions in #ListOfStates, btw. Read up on which states those #FreeWebHosting companies that are JUST #Advertising companies with #WebHosting btw, 💯, where YOU ARE THE PRODUCT being SOLD, data wise, since you don't pay them, obvs., except now in places in the EU, where they are looking at #OptingOutOfAdvertising & offering a #PaidWebHosting model, duh, due to #Regulations on certain things #ForcedConsent & otherwise, being completely illegal. #GDPR

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Lilbits: Microsoft’s Fall 2023 Surface hardware event, KDE goes double-click by default, and Bodhi Linux 7.0 released #BodhiLinux, #DesktopEnvironment, #DoubleClick, #Facebook, #FacebookMessenger, #FindMyDevice, #FindMyDeviceNetwork, #Kde, #Lilbits, #Linuxsmartphones, #Meta, #Microsoft, #MobileLinux, #SmartDisplay, #Surface

https://liliputing.com/lilbits-microsofts-fall-2023-surface-hardware-event-kde-goes-double-click-by-default-and-bodhi-linux-7-0-released/

Lilbits: Microsoft’s Fall 2023 Surface hardware event, KDE goes double-click by default, and Bodhi Linux 7.0 released #BodhiLinux, #DesktopEnvironment, #DoubleClick, #Facebook, #FacebookMessenger, #FindMyDevice, #FindMyDeviceNetwork, #Kde, #Lilbits, #Linuxsmartphones, #Meta, #Microsoft, #MobileLinux, #SmartDisplay, #Surface

https://liliputing.com/lilbits-microsofts-fall-2023-surface-hardware-event-kde-goes-double-click-by-default-and-bodhi-linux-7-0-released/

Lilbits: Microsoft’s Fall 2023 Surface hardware event, KDE goes double-click by default, and Bodhi Linux 7.0 released #BodhiLinux, #DesktopEnvironment, #DoubleClick, #Facebook, #FacebookMessenger, #FindMyDevice, #FindMyDeviceNetwork, #Kde, #Lilbits, #Linuxsmartphones, #Meta, #Microsoft, #MobileLinux, #SmartDisplay, #Surface

https://liliputing.com/lilbits-microsofts-fall-2023-surface-hardware-event-kde-goes-double-click-by-default-and-bodhi-linux-7-0-released/

Lilbits: Microsoft’s Fall 2023 Surface hardware event, KDE goes double-click by default, and Bodhi Linux 7.0 released #BodhiLinux, #DesktopEnvironment, #DoubleClick, #Facebook, #FacebookMessenger, #FindMyDevice, #FindMyDeviceNetwork, #Kde, #Lilbits, #Linuxsmartphones, #Meta, #Microsoft, #MobileLinux, #SmartDisplay, #Surface

https://liliputing.com/lilbits-microsofts-fall-2023-surface-hardware-event-kde-goes-double-click-by-default-and-bodhi-linux-7-0-released/

Lilbits: Microsoft’s Fall 2023 Surface hardware event, KDE goes double-click by default, and Bodhi Linux 7.0 released #BodhiLinux, #DesktopEnvironment, #DoubleClick, #Facebook, #FacebookMessenger, #FindMyDevice, #FindMyDeviceNetwork, #Kde, #Lilbits, #Linuxsmartphones, #Meta, #Microsoft, #MobileLinux, #SmartDisplay, #Surface

https://liliputing.com/lilbits-microsofts-fall-2023-surface-hardware-event-kde-goes-double-click-by-default-and-bodhi-linux-7-0-released/

@tcely
I never used #FacebookMessenger, outside of the in-browser version when #Facebook was a thing. I do feel for the people who were using it for SMS though.

I'm still a bit sore at #Signal / #SignalApp dropping support for #SMS, because that was a way I could get people who weren't tech savvy to start using it with me, to increase the volume (and thus security) of E to E encryption in #EncryptedMessaging, but now I don't really have an option outside of Google Messenger.

Hackaday Links: February 5, 2023 - Well, this week’s Links article is likely to prove a bit on the spicy side, thanks... - https://hackaday.com/2023/02/05/hackaday-links-february-5-2023/ #highaltitudeballoon #sensorydeprivation #facebookmessenger #smartphonebattery #hackadaycolumns #negativetesting #chineseballoon #hackadaylinks #acronym #lithium #slider #hybrid #toyota #meta #hab #ev

@Jamilla Ich sehe gar nicht, wo das Problem ist für einen Radio- oder TV-Sender usw.
Die können sich doch 10 Messenger auf ihr offizielles Chat-Handy machen, das ist doch kaum Mehraufwand für die. Warum muss denn alles über einen Dienst laufen?
OK, #FFH hat auch noch den #Facebookmessenger :-P findet man auf deren Website.
Ich habe am Silvesterabend #HitradioFFH gehört. In kurzer Folge machten sie kostenlose Werbung für #Whatsapp, #Amazon #Alexa und noch so eine #Datenkrake...

Mein Wunsch wurde noch nicht erfüllt. Läuft schon über 2 Jahre.
#ffh #hitradioffh #radio #ffhregional #ffhde #wünschdirwas #wuenschdirwas #Whatsapp #Signal #Threema #Deltachat #Telegram #facebook #messenger #facebookmessenger #wechat @FFHRegional @FFHde

LOVE unveils a modern video messaging app with a business model that puts users in control - A London-headquartered startup called LOVE, valued at $17 million following its pr... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/RbhjAGv1BjE/ #singularityuniversity #chiefdigitalofficer #mobileapplications #serialentrepreneur #facebookmessenger #financialservices #instantmessaging #deutschetelekom #recentfunding #sanfrancisco #socialmedia #blockchain #co-founder #encryption #technology #mobile

Instagram businesses and creators may be getting a Messenger-like ‘FAQ’ feature - Instagram is developing a new product, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), that will allow people to s... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/odcfKaveBf8/ #facebookmessenger #instagramdirect #socialmedia #instagram #messenger #facebook #social #apps #faq

Instagram launches Co-Watching of posts during video chat - Now you can scroll Instagram together with friends, turning a typically isolating, passive experien... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/3OEde602c6U/ #instagramco-founderkevinsystrominterview #facebookwatchtogether #instagramvideocalling #facebookmessenger #instagramdirect #screensharing #coronavirus #instagram #startups #covid-19 #privacy #mobile #social #media #squad #apps #tc

The best video chat apps to turn social distancing into distant socializing - The vicissitudes of social distancing have taken many people by surprise, making video calls a new n... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ttdc6m9kG9k/ #facebookmessenger #videoconferencing #videocalling #coronavirus #houseparty #googleduo #videochat #covid-19 #facebook #whatsapp #discord #social #google #bunch #skype #squad #apps #zoom #tc

Takeaways from F8 and Facebook’s next phase - Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the T... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Ios5ExgS8PQ/ #extracrunchconferencecall #investmentopportunities #artificialintelligence #facebookmarketplace #facebookmessenger #augmentedreality #advertisingtech #venturecapital #virtualreality #conferencecall #facebookdating #facebookgroups #entertainment #facebookwatch #datasecurity #tc

Zuckerberg wants messages to auto-expire to make Facebook a “living room” - On feed-based “broader social networks, where people can accumulate friends or followers until the s... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/nxiREtZEEdE/ #end-to-endencryption #facebookmessenger #facebookprivacy #facebookpolicy #markzuckerberg #encryption #instagram #facebook #whatsapp #privacy #mobile #policy #social #apps #tc