Instant Messaging

Chat Control is the informal name for two European Union measures that would have providers scan users' private messages for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The name covers two separate…

Discord is a proprietary VoIP and instant-messaging platform developed by Discord Inc. (formerly Hammer & Chisel, Inc.), co-founded by Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy. Launched in 2015, the…

Signal is a privacy-focused, open source encrypted messaging service developed by the nonprofit Signal Foundation. Signal was released in 2014, and has over 70 million active users reported as of…

Telegram is an instant messaging (IM) app created in 2013 by Pavel Durov and Nikolai Durov. The company was originally founded on the British Virgin Islands and has an LLC in Dubai since 2017.

WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an American instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta.