There has been rare public resistance to the push to throttle Telegram, with even some pro-Kremlin hawks fearing it could ...

Authorities have spent years testing tools, building apps, trying to restrict how Russian use the Internet. Widespread ...

Russia is pushing its Max messenger -- a social media platform without encryption -- onto its citizens with a massive ...

A Russian outlet has also found instructions from the Russian Ministry of Education instructing educational institutions on how to implement and use the app.

Since 2023, Meta has reintegrated many Messenger features back into the core Facebook experience. If you frequently use the web version of the Facebook Messenger service, there’s sad news. Meta ...

Meta has announced it will discontinue its standalone Messenger website in April. The move is a setback for desktop users, especially since the company deprecated the standalone Messenger apps for Mac ...

If you can’t send messages or images to your friends on Facebook Messenger on Windows PC, this post will interest you. Several Facebook users have complained that they are unable to send messages on ...

On Windows, launching the Messenger desktop app now redirects users directly to the full Facebook desktop application. macOS users see a similar outcome, as the app sends them straight to ...

Meta has discontinued Facebook Messenger’s native desktop app for Mac and Windows, ending access to the standalone application on December 15, 2025, and directing users to continue using the messaging ...

RIP to Facebook Messenger’s desktop app. The native app for Mac and Windows is no longer available to users as of today, December 15, 2025, and existing users are being directed to the Facebook ...

The Facebook Messenger desktop app for macOS is being axed on December 15, forcing Mac users into using the web version, for better or worse. At the time, Facebook had already pulled the app from the ...