{"id":994474,"date":"2026-02-25T09:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994474"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:21:04","slug":"meta-executive-warned-facebook-messenger-encryption-plan-was-so-irresponsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/meta-executive-warned-facebook-messenger-encryption-plan-was-so-irresponsible\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta executive warned Facebook Messenger encryption plan was &#8216;so irresponsible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\/SAN FRANCISCO: Meta executives proceeded with a plan to encrypt the messaging services connected to its Facebook and Instagram apps despite internal warnings that it would hinder the social media giant&#8217;s ability to flag child-exploitation cases to law enforcement, according to internal company documents filed in a New Mexico state court case. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are about to do a bad thing as a company. This is so irresponsible,&#8221; wrote Monika Bickert, Meta&#8217;s head of content policy, in one internal chat exchange dated March 2019 as CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s public announcement of the plan was being prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\/SAN FRANCISCO: Meta executives proceeded with a plan to encrypt the messaging services connected to its Facebook and Instagram apps despite internal warnings that it would hinder the social media giant&#8217;s ability to flag child-exploitation cases to law enforcement, according to internal company documents filed in a New Mexico state court case. &#8220;We are about to do a bad thing as a company. This is so irresponsible,&#8221; wrote Monika Bickert, Meta&#8217;s head of content policy, in one internal chat exchange dated March 2019 as CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s public announcement of the plan was being prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}