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In a 3,000-word post, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday claimed that he intends to turn the social network into a more “privacy-focused” operation, CNBC reports. Zuckerberg wrote that he believes the “future of communication will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services,” and he hopes his company could “help” bring that future about. The CEO also reportedly said the tech company was in the early stages of developing methods for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp direct messages to become cross-platform so users could “reach their friends across these networks from whichever app they prefer.” The post also addressed the various data privacy scandals that have plagued the social network, acknowledging that Facebook doesn’t currently have a “strong reputation for building privacy protective services[.]” However, Zuckerberg claimed the company has “repeatedly shown that we can evolve to build the services that people really want[.]”