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Topic: Messenger

Facebook is merging Messenger and Instagram chat. For Zuckerberg’s benefit, not yours

Tama Leaver - October 6, 2020

The messaging traffic across Facebook’s platforms is vast, with more than 100 billion messages sent daily. Now it will be inseparable.

Facebook to resume human review of Portal users’ audio messages

Kurt Wagner - September 19, 2019

Facebook decided to reinstate this practice because it’s important for training the company’s software programs to accurately understand requests.

Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp set to move to a common Facebook tech home

Shira Ovide - January 26, 2019

Facebook is looking to integrate apps it owns, a move that will surely make it even easier for it to gather data on people, and pinpoint ads to them.

Facebook’s acquisition of every possible digital ad space shows weakness

Shira Ovide - June 20, 2018

Facebook's six years lessons as a public company has made it incredibly adept at making money by finding new places to stick ads and tailoring them to specific needs.

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US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

Shishir Priyadarshi - August 7, 2025

India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.