Is Facebook Bringing Back Rooms App as Part of Messenger?

Is Facebook’s shuttered stand-alone Rooms application coming back to life as part of Messenger?

Is Facebook’s shuttered stand-alone Rooms application coming back to life as part of Messenger?

The social network introduced Rooms in October 2014, saying at the time that it was intended to bring users together to discuss topics of their choice with text, photos and videos, and without having to use their real names.

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However, those Rooms were clearly not crowded enough, as the app was shelved in December 2015, along with fellow Facebook Creative Labs efforts Slingshot and Riff.

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