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by ZiiS 954 days ago
Presumably the is no overlap in the Venn diagram of people who want PGP encrypted emails and people who use Facebook,
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Employees of Facebook are geeky enough to use GPG. I suspect it was a feature built for internal users, but problematic now as most people don't understand it or are able to use it.
It’s at least a small intersection. I had it set up and I think it’s the only social media company that supported this.

Comically I forgot all about it until I had to reset my password and got an encrypted email. Was a pain to dig out my keys and decrypt it, but it worked.

Once upon a time I tried to adapt Mailvelope to encrypt FB messages, for what it's worth. But that was a long, long, LONG time ago.

https://mailvelope.com/en/

I used mailvelope for the longest time as a gmail user until I found a better mail app with gpg support. It was pretty slick last time I used it.

Shamefully I also turned on the pgp messages from Facebook. I never found value with it, but to this day it’s still enabled and I don’t care to log in to Facebook to disable it.