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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 over a decade ago. “They decided that competition was too hard and it would be easier to buy out their
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 make the features available to users, Engadget reported. But now it seems that Movie Gen could arrive on Instagram sooner
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 type automatically applies a set of protections to young users, and only users of 16 years or older can loosen
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.
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 to message other Threads users, Engadget reported. Meta is starting to test messaging features that rely on Instagram’s inbox but
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 out the change in February, announcing in a blog that the platform doesn’t “want to proactively recommend political content from
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 the country. Trending topics are available on the search page and in the app’s For You Feed, TechCrunch reported. In