Social-media giant is moving ahead with a privacy measure that government officials and others have warned could hide illegal activity by child predators and other criminals.

New Mexico's Attorney General filed a new lawsuit against the company this week claiming that Meta is harming a vulnerable population on its platform.

The social-media giant this week will begin automatically shifting Facebook users to end-to-end encryption for their messages, rolling out the change over the course of weeks, the WSJ reported. Direct messages on Instagram also will shift to such encryption by default somewhat later,

Meta released a free standalone AI image generator website, " Imagine with Meta AI ," based on its Emu image synthesis model. Meta used 1.1 billion publicly visible Facebook and Instagram images to train the AI model,

Meta Platforms Inc. has started fully encrypting personal messages on some of its apps by default, in a move likely to add fuel to the debate over

All Facebook and Messenger chats will be encrypted automatically, parent company Meta has announced. Messages and calls protected by end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) can be read only by the sender and recipient.

Under the changes, Meta will no longer have access to the contents of what users send or receive, unless a user reports a message

Meta Platforms has started fully encrypting messages on Facebook by default in a bid to improve safety. But the move is only likely to add to the intense debate around online privacy.

The major privacy update means Meta will no longer be able to see the contents of messages and brings Facebook and Messenger in line with the company’s other platform, WhatsApp.

Facebook Messenger is getting default end-to-end encryption through the latest update, along with a few other handy new features.