Instagram will prevent teen users from spending too long scrolling through posts with a particular theme, the social media behemoth announced on Tuesday, adding that the feature was being rolled out across the US, the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Teen users who are devoting what the platform …
Read More »Russia bans Facebook and Instagram
A Moscow court on Monday banned Facebook and Instagram in Russia as extremist organizations, after the platforms, owned by US-tech giant Meta, allowed online hate speech against the country’s nationals. The judge had rejected a request by Meta’s lawyers to stop or delay the proceedings against the social media giant. …
Read More »Instagram, Snapchat sued over alleged role in girl’s suicide
Eleven-year-old Selena was apparently so addicted to Instagram and Snapchat that she suffered depression, eating disorders and sleep deprivation, before eventually killing herself, her mother Tammy Rodriguez claims. The woman, from Connecticut, sued the companies in San Francisco federal court this week. According to the lawsuit, filed on Thursday against …
Read More »Instagram introduces new feature for exclusive content
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri has unveiled three new money-making features for creators who use the platform in an effort to compete with sites like OnlyFans and Patreon that offer users a reliable income stream. “Creators do what they do to make a living, and it’s important that that is predictable,” …
Read More »Instagram culture of narcissism is destroying our society. Something has to be done about it
Narcissism and vanity are on the rise. While in the past these were considered vices, we must concede that today, in our downward-hurtling dystopia, these are now positively virtues. There is no longer any moral opposition to ANYTHING that might stand in the way of a ‘more impressive selfie’. Fake …
Read More »Russian Instagram star released by cops after bare butt photo outside iconic St. Petersburg cathedral landed model in hot water
36-year-old Irina Volkova was released by the court without any conditions on Sunday, after spending about a day in detention. The prosecution had been demanding restrictions be imposed while prosecutors prepare the case, but the court dismissed dismissed the arguments as “hypothetical.” Volkova sparked outrage earlier this week after a …
Read More »Facebook ‘fixing’ Instagram after Haugen leak: Nudging teens away from bad content & making Section 230 conditional on censorship
Facebook has been subjected to an onslaught of criticism after its former employee Frances Haugen leaked internal company documents to the press, and accused the tech giant of putting profits before the wellbeing of its users. One of the specific charges was that using Facebook-owned Instagram could be harmful to …
Read More »Not again?! Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp offline for second time in a week
Facebook and its subsidiaries have crashed mysteriously for users all around the world on Friday, according to outage tracker DownDetector. It is the second major outage this week for the social media behemoth. The trillion-dollar company acknowledged outages affecting its various platforms, using the exact same language it deployed to …
Read More »Call me a luddite, but just imagine if Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp all crashed at the same time…and nobody gave a damn
On Monday evening at 16.44 BST – a moment that will live in infamy – Mark Zuckerberg’s electric kingdom suddenly went dark. Millions of social media users were left perched precariously on the rocks overlooking serene sunsets, or languishing lonely over champagne and sherbet in some trendy cafe with not …
Read More »Back from the dead: Facebook & Instagram online again for some users after massive 6-hour outage
Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer tweeted around 6:45 pm ET that company’s services were “coming back online,” noting that it may take time to get them in a fully functioning mode. “To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I’m sorry,” he tweeted apologetically. …
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