Meta removes Instagram DM encryption by May 8, 2026, exposing your private messages to company data mining and AI training algorithms.

Instagram's message encryption will soon end.

Many people open their Instagram chat and suddenly notice something strange. A message that was there before is now gone. It can feel confusing. Sometimes it even causes panic because the message may ...

In a nutshell: Meta has confirmed it will end support for end-to-end encryption in Instagram direct messages on May 8, reversing a two-year experiment that began rolling out quietly in late 2023. Meta ...

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