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

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• is a news writer covering all things consumer tech.
• Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.
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• Meta’s new Forum app for iPhones 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 ChatGPT 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.
• Verge editor Thomas Ricker’s interests include portable batteries and solar power.