Instagram is making teen accounts private by default as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid a growing backlash against how social media affects young people’s lives.
Instagram says it’s deploying new tools to protect young people and combat sexual extortion, including a feature that will automatically blur nudity in direct messages.
Meta resolved an outage suffered by Facebook, Instagram and Threads on Tuesday, concluding a service issue that had prevented some U.S. users from logging on to the sites for several hours, Meta said in a statement.
Technology company “Meta” is making a change to what political content you’ll see on social media platforms.
In the coming months Meta says it is adding “AI Generated” labels to images created by third-party tools.
On Tuesday, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that 42 attorneys general have sued Meta in federal and state courts.
Instagram is rolling out a few new features, one is called Quiet Mode which is meant to help users focus and set boundaries with friends and followers on the social media platform.
According to outage-tracking site down detector, some Instagram users reported issues accessing the social media platform the morning of Oct. 31.
Beginning this week, officials say Instagram will display AMBER Alerts on its platform.
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage
