When social networking titan Facebook emerged to the scene back in 2004, no one predicted the global and social overtake of what soon became a digital and societal phenomenon. The impact this company had on a worldwide scale presented to other social networking companies, such as Twitter, Snapchat, and LinkedIn, the needed means to flourish […]
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 […]
Two new features has been added by Instagram to improve user experience, including a “rage shake” that will let users report a problem more quickly, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said Wednesday. If you’re using the app and it isn’t working as it’s supposed to, shake the phone while the app is open, and a pop-up […]
Meta shared on Wednesday its latest statistics report addressing the intensity of bullying, hate speech, and harassment on its platforms, as the public’s scrutinizing vigilance centers its gaze on the social network. The data released by the Big Tech giant’s last quarterly transparency report surfaced as Facebook’s guardian company, Meta, endures an increasingly examining scrutiny […]
Users on Instagram don’t have the privilege to support the people they follow through money, like apps such as Patreon and OnlyFans. The only way for users on Instagram to turn a profit is by seeking out sponsors themselves, however, the Meta-owned platform is about to do just that, by getting ready to launch a […]
The senator leading a probe of Facebook’s Instagram and its impact on young people is asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the panel that has heard far-reaching criticisms from a former employee of the company. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who heads the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection, called in a sharply worded […]