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Facebook Says Encrypting Messenger by Default Will Take Years

Published: Jan. 20, 2020, 6:20 a.m.

In March of last year, Mark Zuckerberg made a dramatic pledge: Facebook would apply end-to-end encryption to user communications across all of its platforms by default. The move would grant strong new protections to well over a billion users. It's also not happening any time soon.