Messenger Privacy

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11- [Rooms](https://www.messenger.com/rooms)
22- [Features](https://www.messenger.com/features)
33- [Privacy & Safety](https://www.messenger.com/privacy)
44- [For Developers](https://developers.facebook.com/products/messenger/)
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6## You control your Messenger experience.
6## You control your Messenger experience
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8## You control your Messenger experience
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10## You control your Messenger experience
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812## Protecting your privacy
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1014Who you talk to and what you share should be up to you. We're dedicated to making sure Messenger is a safe, private, and secure place for you to connect with the people who matter. To do this, we've built tools that allow you to stay in control, secure your account, and stay safe on the platform.
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12## KEEPING YOUR INFORMATION SAFE
16### KEEPING YOUR INFORMATION SAFE
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14### Your messages are your messages.
18## Your messages are your messages.
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16We want you to know what information we collect and how we use it. We don't use the content of your messages with other people for ad targeting. Ads are shown to you based on your activity across Facebook companies and products, your activity with other businesses, your activity on other websites and apps, and your location.
20We want you to know what information we collect and how we use it. We don't use the content of your messages with other people for ad targeting, which means advertisers can't target you based on what you say in messages. As with other parts of Facebook, we collect information from Messenger primarily to provide the service, improve the product experience, and keep people safe and secure.
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18[Learn more](https://www.facebook.com/ads/about/)
22[Learn More](https://www.facebook.com/ads/about/)
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20## KEEPING YOUR INFORMATION SAFE
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22### Your messages are your messages.
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24We want you to know what information we collect and how we use it. We don't use the content of your messages with other people for ad targeting. Ads are shown to you based on your activity across Facebook companies and products, your activity with other businesses, your activity on other websites and apps, and your location.
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26[Learn more](https://www.facebook.com/ads/about/)
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2824## KEEPING HACKERS AT BAY
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3026### We have expert teams dedicated to detecting and preventing hackers from accessing your personal messages and information.
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3228We also offer these tools to help you stay safe:
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3430#### Two-Factor Authentication
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3632Improve your account safety and help protect yourself from hacking and phishing attempts even if your password is compromised.
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38[Learn more](https://www.facebook.com/help/148233965247823)
34[Learn More](https://www.facebook.com/help/148233965247823)
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4036#### Login Alerts
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4238Help safeguard your account from potential threats and attacks by enabling login alerts. These alert you if we detect unrecognized logins and login attempts.
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44[Learn more](https://www.facebook.com/help/162968940433354)
40[Learn More](https://www.facebook.com/help/162968940433354)
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46#### Safer Browsing
42#### Safer Message Requests
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48If someone sends you suspicious links that may lead you to malicious and unsafe websites, you'll see a warning so you don't click a link that may compromise your private data.
44It's easy to block or delete new Message Requests. To keep you extra safe, we also hide or blur images and disable links unless you reply to the message or copy and paste the link in a browser tab.
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50[Learn more](https://www.facebook.com/help/713015355575644)
46[Learn More](https://www.facebook.com/help/907368596013605)
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5248## KEEPING YOU SAFE
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5450### A safe platform is critical for you to feel secure about sharing with the people you care about.
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5652That's why we're constantly working to stop malicious activity before it reaches you. Here are the ways we work to protect your privacy, safety, and well-being on Messenger:
7874#### Spotting impersonators
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8076The Blue Badge on Messenger lets you make sure the account you're speaking with is authentic, and helps to prevent scammers from posing as public figures, media companies or brands.
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8278#### Reducing the spread of misinformation
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84Providing people with context helps stop the spread of misinformation. The forwarded label alerts you when you are receiving a forwarded message, which helps you know when a message you received was not created by the person who sent it.
80To reduce the spread of viral misinformation and harmful content, we limit the number of chats a message can be forwarded to at one time. We also have additional protections in place for content that has been identified as misinformation on Facebook and shared directly into Messenger. For more information, [see How Facebook Protects Elections](https://l.messenger.com/l.php).
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8682#### Enhanced safeguards for minors
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8884Keeping minors safe on our platforms is one of our greatest responsibilities. We provide enhanced safety features for children under the age of 18 such as limiting who can message them and how they can be found in search, and offer them educational tips. We also use machine learning to detect and disable accounts who are engaging in inappropriate interactions with children.
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90## Additional Resources
86## Additional resources
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88Coming soon! Message your Instagram friends right from Messenger. [Learn More.](https://l.messenger.com/l.php)