Controversial Facebook Messenger logo change triggers huge design debate

Back in 2020, Meta announced proudly that “nothing’s changed, everything’s changed” when it replaced the blue Facebook Messenger logo with a series of redesigns sporting purple and pink gradients. Four years on, now nothing has changed for real.

Meta has baffled Messenger users by rowing back on the much publicised logo redesign and reverting to the previous blue palette. It’s offered no explanation for the change, but people have already reached their own conclusions about the reverse rebrand.

In January, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook’s token commitment to standards and moderation was now “out of touch with mainstream discourse” and that he had decided to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes. Because we all know how well that has worked on X.