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Meta’s Forum is part Reddit, part Facebook, and part Google AI Overview

The Verge · May 22, 2026, 5:27 PM · Also reported by 3 other sources

Meta's new Forum app for i Phones takes Facebook Groups and moves them to a dedicated app with a dedicated AI chatbot to go with it, like an AI revamp of the ill-fated Groups app Facebook shut down in 2017. Rather than going to Chat GPT or tacking "Reddit" onto the end of a Google search, Forum users can view, search for, and post advice directly in their Facebook groups, with optional help from Meta's AI. After logging in with my Facebook account, Forum automatically pulled in the groups I was part of on Facebook and populated my feed with posts from those groups, along with suggestions from groups I'm not part of, similar to my Reddit fe … Read the full story at The Verge.

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