In March 2018, with the help of a friend, Princess Latifa of Dubai managed to flee her home and controlling father, Sheikh Mohammed, the emirate’s billionaire ruler. After she made it to a ship in international waters in the Indian Ocean, armed commandos swooped with smoke grenades and dragged her back, despite her pleas …
Read More »Justin Bieber goes viral on Instagram after ‘dropping in’ on French President Macron at Elysee Palace
In the photo, Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte pose next to Bieber and his wife Hailey inside the presidential palace. The singer’s attempted nod to propriety consisted of a suit worn over blue sneakers and an unbuttoned shirt. Bieber did not put a caption next to the photo, leaving …
Read More »RT Creative Lab wins D&AD’s PENCIL award with ‘The Endless Letter’ Instagram series honoring WWII victims
‘The Endless Letter’ Instagram series won the coveted Pencil award in the Writing for Design category. The Wood Pencil award represents the best in advertising and design from the year. RT was among such winners in the category as Spotify, BBDO, Droga5 NY, Ogilvy and others. Headquartered in London, D&AD has …
Read More »‘Like Big Tobacco selling ‘child-friendly’ cigarettes’: Facebook’s ‘Instagram for kids’ idea faces backlash from advocacy groups
More than 180,000 people signed three declarations penned by a coalition of advocacy and grassroots organizations, including Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, SumOfUs and the Juggernaut Project. In March, Buzzfeed obtained internal documents showing that Facebook, Instagram’s parent company, wants to allow kids to “safely use” its popular photo- and …
Read More »Instagram labelled a ‘disgrace’ by senior UK police official after report flags more than 100 convicted paedophiles using platform
The newspaper was able to identify more than 100 accounts matching the names and photographs of people who have been jailed for sexual abuse against children over the last decade. Two of the accounts belonged to men serving 20-year prison sentences for raping young children, the Telegraph said. Some of …
Read More »Instagram will now let users choose pronouns, reportedly from more than 40 options – but some think the list is too restrictive
Users under 18 will display their pronouns only to their followers by default and people can fill out a form to have a pronoun added to the list. Tech website Mashable conducted its own testing and found that there were 41 pronouns currently available on the app. Facebook, which owns …
Read More »Body of Instagram lifestyle star found by police in rural Russian woodland, as authorities question husband over her disappearance
Officers investigating the 28-year-old social media star’s disappearance revealed on Thursday that her corpse had been discovered in the woods near the Russian city of Ekaterinburg. Identifying the body reportedly took two weeks, and she had not initially been reported missing. A passing driver, on the road to the country’s …
Read More »Signal messenger takes aim at Instagram’s ‘hazy’ user data policies with SUPER-SPECIFIC ad campaign, gets its ad account blocked
In a blog post published on Tuesday, Signal, which brands itself as privacy-positive, called out the user privacy policies of both Instagram and its parent company Facebook, both of which use the same adtech tools and platform. As a result, both have access to all the data users create when …
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Read More »Instagram CENSORS iconic graduation photo of ‘Kent State Gun Girl’ but allows ‘direct threats’ in her DMs
Bennett made a splash on the political scene in May 2018, when she posted a photo of herself with a rifle slung over her back and a graduation cap with the words “come and take it.” On March 31, Instagram sent her a notice that the photo was removed for …
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