Tag: Instagram

Facebook Poised for Slowest US Growth Ever in 2021
Facebook is poised to experience its slowest US growth ever in 2021, dropping to a mere 1%. Facebook is the 800-pound gorilla among social medi...
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Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Trump Ban
Facebook’s Oversight Board has decided Donald Trump’s fate, upholding the ban imposed after the January 6 insurrection. Then-President Donald T...
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Facebook and Instagram Try to Scare iOS Users Into Accepting Tracking
Facebook and Instagram are resorting to scare tactics to convince iOS users to allow the companies to track them. The latest version of iOS 14...
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Instagram Testing the Ability to Hide Likes
Instagram is testing a feature that will allow users to hide Likes, both in other users’ posts and in their own. One of the downsides of social...
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WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Apps Experienced Outage
WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and Facebook apps experienced a significant outage Friday afternoon. According to...
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Instagram Unveils Live Rooms, Ability to Livestream With Three People
Instagram has introduced Live Rooms, doubling the capacity of its Live on Instagram feature. Instagram previously allowed creators to go live w...
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Blackberry Rises on News of Facebook Settlement
Blackberry shares have had their best run since 2001, driven in part by news of a settlement with Facebook over messaging patents....
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Facebook Sued by FTC and 48 US Jurisdictions In Antitrust Case
As expected, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with a coalition of US jurisdictions, has sued Facebook over antitrust accusations. Face...
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Facebook May Pull Out of Europe
Facebook is warning it may pull out of Europe over a decision by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC)....
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Instagram Accused of Spying on Users Via Phone Cameras
Facebook is being sued over allegations Instagram is spying on users via their phone cameras. The...
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Facebook Turns to AI For Automatic Captioning
Facebook has rolled out automatic captioning in IGTV, Facebook Live and Workplace Live, powered by artificial intelligence (AI)....
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Instagram May Start Asking For Your Government ID
Instagram has announced it will start asking some users to provide their government ID to prove who they are....
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Instagram Wasn’t Deleting User Data From Servers
A security researcher has been awarded a bug bounty after discovering Instagram was retaining data long after he had deleted it....
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WhatsApp Business Sees Ten-Fold Growth
WhatsApp has reported it now has some 50 million users of its WhatsApp Business app. Facebook has...
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Facebook Acquires Giphy, Adding It to Instagram
Facebook announced it is acquiring Giphy, with plans to integrate it into the Instagram platform....
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