The Russian invasion of Ukraine has tested the U.S. geopolitical caliber and superiority as a globally renowned powerhouse. With Russia’s condemning intrusion on Ukraine’s sovereign dominion, the U.S. played the field through economic sanctions against Russia to force some influence on Russian President Vladimir Putin. Yet, in March, it appeared that the U.S. decided to […]
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Meta is partnering up with Polygon to bring NFTs to Instagram and Facebook. Polygon’s blockchain ecosystem will be made available to Meta’s aggregate 2.9 billion users as a result of the cooperation. According to a Tweet by Polygon CEO Ryan Wyatt, Meta chose Polygon as their partner because of their excellent scalability and eco-friendly carbon-neutral […]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed that Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) would be coming to Instagram “in the near term” titled “Into the Metaverse: Creators, Commerce, and Connection” during this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) conference. NFTs have been at the center of media platforms and social networks, and it is a growing area of interest for some […]
In the latest maneuver to exhibit the public and politicians its effort to minimize its damaging effect on users, Instagram has once more upped its minimum daily screen time limit to 30 minutes, from the previous 10 to 15 minutes. According to TechCrunch, one user revealed that the social networking application is demanding a reconfiguration of its […]
Instagram is reported to have reached 2 billion monthly active users without officially announcing it, according to anonymous employees who broke the news to CNBC. The reason behind not announcing it is that the platform was under surveillance in the past few months for potentially causing harm to children and teens. The last time the […]
The chronological feed will be back as an option on Instagram, according to statements made by Instagram head Adam Mosseri during his testimony on Wednesday before a Senate panel over the harms to young people using the app. Mosseri stressed that he would support giving people the option to have a chronological feed and that […]
It seems that teens finding and buying drugs online, especially over Instagram, turned to be easy, a new report from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) revealed on Tuesday. The report said that TTP created fake Instagram accounts of minors aged between 13 and 17 and found that it took “only two clicks to reach an […]
Instagram on Tuesday launched a feature that urges teenagers to take breaks from the photo-sharing platform and announced other tools aimed at protecting young users from harmful content on the Facebook-owned service. The previously announced “Take A Break” feature encourages teens to stop scrolling if they have been on the social media platform for a […]
Instagram CEO, Adam Mosseri, will give testimony before Congress on December 6th, in a set of hearings for the platform’s approaches towards teens’ online protection, The New York Times reported. The testimony will be a follow-up after Senate lawmakers intensified their scrutinizing gaze on the platform concerning how its parent company Meta – previously Facebook – […]
A coalition of states attorneys general launched Thursday an investigation into Instagram’s ways of attracting and affecting the younger generation, especially younger girls, in their latest attempt to harshen regulatory scrutiny on Meta Platforms Inc, according to The Wall Street Journal. The examination into the social networking platform led by eight states, with Massachusetts and Nebraska […]