According to Zuckerberg, Facebook’s Future Is Encrypted Private Messaging

Pivot comes after more than a year of privacy-related crises

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has outlined a vision for the future of Facebook centered around private, encrypted services like messaging and communication and not around the permanent open-sharing model that has defined the platform over the past decade.

In a blog post on Wednesday, Zuckerberg, who has in the past year defended his company amid a number of privacy-related scandals, wrote that Facebook planned to “rebuild” its existing services to prioritize encrypted communications and ephemeral messaging, with security and privacy as a foundation.

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