One app promotes itself as a way to discuss sensitive negotiations and human resources problems without leaving a digital record. Another boasts that disappearing messages “keep your message history ...

You can message someone on Instagram through the platform's direct messaging feature, which lets you reach out to anyone with an Instagram account.

Future Tense Secure Systems, founded by software pioneer John McAfee, has released a new private messaging app, CHADDER, designed to let users send private, encrypted messages. The messages are so ...

Jack Dorsey — Twitter, Bluesky, and Square co-founder and Bitcoin evangelist — is now taking on the world of private messaging apps. Announced earlier this week, Dorsey's latest project is called ...

But Twitter isn’t without weak spots, and private messaging has long been a problem for the company. Direct messages, or DMs, are often buggy and counterintuitive, and Twitter has treated its only way ...

It was really a matter of when, not if, Instagram would launch a private messaging service, given the success Snapchat, WhatsApp, and Kik. On Thursday, the Facebook-owned company answered that ...

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You can delete Instagram messages in two different ways – by deleting an entire conversation or by "unsending" a message.

A proposed EU law that would allow authorities to bypass encryption to scan private chat messages for criminal content is ...