Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen's DMs So They Could Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion

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28. These were text messages between mother and daughter.

They served facebook with a warrant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_(software)
Messenger[11] is a proprietary instant messaging app and platform developed by Meta Platforms. Originally developed as Facebook Chat in 2008, the company revamped its messaging service in 2010, released standalone iOS and Android apps in 2011, and released standalone Facebook Portal hardware for Messenger calling in 2018. Later,[when?] Facebook launched a dedicated website interface, Messenger.com, and separated the messaging functionality from the main Facebook app, allowing users to use the web interface or download one of the standalone apps. In April 2020, Facebook released a Messenger desktop app for Windows and macOS.

Messenger is used to send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio, and files, and also react to other users' messages and interact with bots. The service also supports voice and video calling. The standalone apps support using multiple accounts, conversations with optional end-to-end encryption, and playing games.

This is no different than getting a warrant for SMS messages via a phone carrier or AOL instant messenger, IRC, ICQ via an ISP.

Facebook private messages can be done on both a computer and phone, so they are often more versatile and desirable than SMS messages. For instance, my carrier, ATT limits the number of people who can be on text chat, Messenger does not. Also my carrier compresses pics that I send via SMS text, Messenger does not. When my hubby takes pics, I tell him, please send via FB Messenger because ATT turns them into low resolution.

Unless you are familiar with how it works, you can bash facebook all you want.