Wave Goodbye to Facebook Instant Articles on Messenger

The focus shifts to Facebook's core app

Facebook still has big plans for its Instant Articles media-rich, quick-loading mobile stories from publishers, but those big plans no longer include Messenger.

The social network rolled out Instant Articles on Messenger in July 2016, with vice president of messaging products David Marcus saying at the time, “Over 900 million people share and read news stories privately on Messenger. From now on, this experience will be meaningfully improved as stories will load up to 10 times faster than standard mobile web links, and will be enhanced with dynamic features that make the content more fluid, interactive and immersive.”

However,

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