- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on an earnings call that the planned integration of Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram direct messages won't happen until 2020 at the earliest.
- He laid particular emphasis on rolling out end-to-end encryption on the new amalgamated service, which is currently a big WhatsApp's selling point.
- Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014, and its cofounders left in the past two years reportedly after clashing with Facebook executives over user privacy.
Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook's plans to merge Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram's messaging service won't see the light of day until 2020 at the earliest.