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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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Topic: Messenger

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

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

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

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

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. 

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.