Mark Zuckerberg reportedly orders Facebook Messenger and Instagram teams to add end-to-end encryption

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Facebook is reportedly looking to add end-to-end encryption to both Facebook Messenger and Instagram Direct chats, according to The New York Times. It’s part of a plan from CEO Mark Zuckerberg to merge the underlying messaging system across Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp so all three apps can communicate between each other.

The move apparently comes directly from Zuckerberg, who has ordered the company to rework the underlying infrastructure behind all three apps into a single, unified service that will allow users of Facebook’s three disparate messaging services to talk to each other, even if they don’t have accounts on the same app.

The order for end-to-end reportedly comes directly from Zuckerberg

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