With all the drama around TikTok and its fate in the US, Instagram has decided it’s the perfect moment to unveil a brand-new app. Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s head, shared that a new, free video-editing app called Edits is coming soon. Designed for phone video editors, Edits promises a complete set of creative tools, from better recording […]
Meta AI is levelling up Mark Zuckerberg has announced a ton of cool AI features at Meta Connect 2024 which apply to Meta AI, the chatbot found inside its popular social media apps like Facebook, Instagram DM, WhatsApp, and Messenger. One of the coolest new features he revealed is the ability to ask questions about photos and edit them in […]
The new ‘Teen Accounts’ feature will restrict who can reach teens, control what content they see, and make sure they spend their time wisely on the app. What you need to know Instagram is now automatically setting some teen accounts to limit who can reach out to them and what content they’re exposed to, the […]
Here’s how AI content will be labelled. Meta has already changed how AI-generated content is labelled on its platforms like Instagram and Facebook. In a statement released on July 1, the tech giant said it relied on “industry standard indicators” to make an informed decision on how to approach AI content. Previously, the label read “Made with AI”, but will now […]
As of Tuesday midafternoon (Nigerian time) Meta-owned social media platforms Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger were down. More than 500,000 users reported Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger outages starting around 10:08 a.m. EST to Down Detector. Reports spiked at 10:30 a.m. EST. (Down Detector is owned by ZiffDavis, Mashable’s parent company.) There were over 72,000 posts on Twitter / X […]
Meta Platforms Inc. experienced an outage this afternoon that made Facebook, Instagram and Threads inaccessible worldwide for about two hours. The first user reports of downtime started emerging around 10 a.m. EST. Meta confirmed the outage shortly thereafter, stating in a note on its status page that “we are aware of an issue impacting Facebook Login. Our […]
Meta has revealed plans to end Instagram users’ ability to chat with Facebook accounts later this month, rolling back a feature that it introduced over three years ago. In September 2020, Meta (then Facebook) announced it was merging its Facebook Messenger service with Instagram direct messaging, allowing Instagram users to chat with Facebook users and vice […]
Since Threads launched in July, Meta has increased the integration between it, Facebook, and Instagram. One example of this integration is that Instagram and Facebook now show in-app carousels of suggested content from Threads. In response to feedback from Threads users, Meta is now adding the ability for users to opt out of having their […]
Facebook and Instagram are removing posts from users that offer help accessing abortion pills, saying they violate a policy around pharmaceuticals. Following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade on Friday, social media users have shared posts offering to mail abortion pills to people whose access to abortion has been stripped away or will be soon. But […]
The Russian government on Monday, March 21, officially banned Facebook and Instagram from the country for what amounts to failing to police discussion of Russia’s ongoing and deadly invasion of Ukraine. This is coming from a report monitored on TASS, a Russian state-owned media outlet, which notes that as of now WhatsApp, another service owned by Meta […]
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