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 anContinue Reading
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 chatContinue Reading
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 toContinue Reading
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 awayContinue Reading
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,Continue Reading
Instagram has quietly tweaked its Daily Limit feature, seemingly to ensure people spend more time on the social network. The Daily Limit feature allows people to control how much time they spend on Instagram — after a specified amount of time the app warns you that you’ve been scrolling for too long.Continue Reading
The new mantra: “more friends, less politics”. It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Facebook. A series of outages made headlines last week, with Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp going down for a significant period of time. But perhaps more importantly, the social media giant is facing increased scrutiny over the potentiallyContinue Reading
WhatsApp will incorporate Instagram’s ‘view once’ feature for images and video to the social networking app soon. The feature will allow you to send pictures and videos that can only be viewed once. It will also allow you to verify if the recipient has opened the media. The media willContinue Reading
Facebook is making it even easier to buy stuff while you scroll past photos of your high school lab partner’s dog. Yes, Instagram Shops and Facebook Marketplace are already displayed prominently on the apps’ bottom navigation tabs. But now, you can shop on WhatsApp too, along with other updates. Today on aContinue Reading
Instagram for kids? What could possibly go wrong?! A report from BuzzFeed says that parent company Facebook is working on a new version of Instagram for child and tween users. Currently, Instagram users have to be 13 or older. Vishal Shah, Instagram’s vice president of product, reportedly announced the initiative in aContinue Reading