Meta for months has been experimenting with letting people cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads, its social networking platform competing with X (formally known as Twitter). Meta ...

This article wasco-published with The Markup, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good.Sign up for its newsletters. As The Markup was investigating ...

Actual Instagram addiction is much rarer than the news media narrative suggests. In A Nutshell Only 2% of Instagram users ...

Instagram has provided us with a space to catch up with our friends, post thirst traps, and stalk our favorite celebrities since 2010. However, whether you’re looking to decrease your screen time, ...

In January, chief executives of the top social media companies went before Congress to answer questions about online child exploitation. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, turned around during the hearing ...

Instagram said Tuesday that it would overhaul its approach to teenagers’ accounts and try to crack down on their access to objectionable content after a firestorm of bad publicity over how teens use ...

Instagram users have been concerned that the app listens to conversations to serve targeted ads. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, said in a video that the app uses other ways to feed ads. "We do not ...

The research — from academics at California Institute of Technology and University of Southern California — suggests that ...