Debugger

Facebook’s Plan to Fuse Its Messaging Apps Is Not About Your Privacy

Just follow the money

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5 min readApr 29, 2019

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Our smartphones have officially made it a pain to talk to one another. Many of us spend our days hopping between messaging apps, from iMessage to WhatsApp to Facebook Messenger to Instagram and back again, carrying on fractured conversations with the same set of people…

Owen Williams

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Fascinated by how code and design is shaping the world. I write about the why behind tech news. Design Manager in Tech. https://twitter.com/ow

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