{"slug": "metas-forum-is-part-reddit-part-facebook-and-part-google-ai-overview", "title": "Meta’s Forum is part Reddit, part Facebook, and part Google AI Overview", "summary": "Meta has launched a new iPhone app called Forum, which functions as a dedicated space for Facebook Groups, integrating an AI chatbot to help users search through group posts. The app combines elements of Reddit, Facebook, and Google's AI Overviews, allowing users to view, search, and post advice within their groups with optional AI assistance. Forum automatically populates a user's feed with posts from their existing Facebook groups and suggests new ones, while its \"Ask\" tab provides AI-generated responses based on group content.", "body_md": "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.\nMeta’s Forum is part Reddit, part Facebook, and part Google AI Overview\nForum’s revival of Facebook’s discontinued Groups app includes an AI chatbot for searching through group posts.\nForum’s revival of Facebook’s discontinued Groups app includes an AI chatbot for searching through group posts.\nRather 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.\nAfter 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 feed, although without Reddit’s pseudonymity.\nGroups aren’t front-and-center in Facebook, so I wasn’t surprised to find some on my list that I had completely forgotten about. Aside from the feed, you can also view a mini version of your Facebook profile that just shows your group posts, browse new groups, and post directly to specific groups.\nForum’s AI chatbot lives under the “Ask” tab, where you can get AI-generated responses pulling from posts to various Facebook groups, similar to the way Google’s search results and AI overviews pull from the Reddit content it licenses and other sources on the internet.\nTo try it out, I asked the AI a few questions about Magic: The Gathering. Meta’s chatbot referenced posts from a couple Magic groups I’m in, and gave generally sound advice, with suggestions for groups in my area of New Jersey. The results included the posts the AI references, so you can tap them to view the full conversation around those posts.\nMeta communications manager Feryal Hemamda confirmed Forum’s launch in a statement to The Verge: “We test lots of new products publicly to see what people find interesting and useful to their experiences across our apps.”", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-forum-is-part-reddit-part-facebook-and-part-google-ai-overview", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/936290/meta-forum-facebook-groups-app-hands-on", "published_at": "2026-05-22 17:27:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-22 17:31:00.900988+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["products", "artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Meta", "Facebook", "Forum", "Reddit", "Google", "ChatGPT", "iPhone"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-forum-is-part-reddit-part-facebook-and-part-google-ai-overview", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-forum-is-part-reddit-part-facebook-and-part-google-ai-overview.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-forum-is-part-reddit-part-facebook-and-part-google-ai-overview.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-forum-is-part-reddit-part-facebook-and-part-google-ai-overview.jsonld"}}