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After Friday, Meta can read your Instagram DMs again

Ellsworth Toohey
May 05, 2026
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Wax figure of Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (Harmony Video Production / Shutterstock.com)

This Friday, May 8, Meta will turn off end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs. The feature, added as opt-in in 2023, is being yanked because almost nobody used it — or at least, that’s the official explanation, according to MacRumors, citing a Meta spokesperson who told T…

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