Stan Chudnovsky, the VP of Messenger at Facebook, is in charge of the company’s plans for the future of communication. Those plans are big and getting bigger. Chudnovsky joins the show to discuss Messenger as an app, Messenger as a protocol, how privacy figures into the future of messaging, his theories on super apps like WeChat, and how the pandemic changed the course of digital communication forever.

For more on the topics in this episode:

Stan Chudnovsky on FacebookMark Zuckerberg’s 2019 post on “A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking”How Messenger-Instagram cross-app chat works

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