A trial in the landmark antitrust case against social media giant Meta kicked off in Washington on Monday, the BBC reported. Lawyers for the US competition and consumer watchdog allege Meta unlawfully quashed rivals by purchasing Instagram and What’s App… Read More
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Meta’s AI Video Editing Features Are Coming To Instagram Next Year
Earlier this year, Meta previewed Movie Gen, an AI video tool that looked impressively realistic (at least in the sample clips it released.) At the time, though, Meta said it was still a research project with no immediate plans to… Read More
Instagram Is Putting Every Teen Into A More Private and Restrictive New Account
Starting today, Instagram will begin putting new and existing users under the age of 18 into “Teen Accounts” — a move that will affect how tens of millions of teens interact with the platform, The Verge reported. The new account… Read More
EU Launches Probe Into Meta Over Social Media Addiction In Children
Brussels has opened an in-depth probe into Meta over concerns it is failing to do enough to protect children from becoming addicted to social media platforms such as Instagram, Financial Times reported. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, announced… Read More
Meta Is Testing Messaging Capabilities For Threads
As Threads has grown to more than 130 million users, one of the major remaining “missing” features users often complain about is the lack of direct messaging abilities. But those missing out on DMs may soon have a new option… Read More
Users Shocked To Find Instagram Limits Political Content By Default
Instagram users have started complaining on X (formerly Twitter) after discovering that Meta has begun limiting recommended political content by default, ArsTechnica reported. Instagram apparently did not notify users directly on the platform when this change happened. Instead, Instagram rolled… Read More
Threads Is Rolling Out Trending Topics To All Users In The US
Threads, the Twitter-like app from Instagram, is rolling out its “trending now” feature widely to all users in the U.S. The official rollout comes a month after the app started testing the feature with a select number of users in… Read More