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Instagram betting on local content to dispel 'elitist myth'

Asserts that it does not cater primarily to English-speaking base, claims launch of short video format Reels last year has further expanded its reach

Facebook, Instagram face another global outage in less than a month

Facebook and Instagram went down for millions of its users for couple of hours in various parts of the world early Friday morning

Supreme Court Justice in US suggests regulations for social media platforms

Justice Clarence Thomas said that Congress should consider whether laws should be updated to better regulate social media platforms that have "unbridled control" over "unprecedented" amounts of speech

Facebook services suffer outage with Instagram down for nearly a million

Downdetector showed there were more than 1.2 million incidents of people reporting issues with Instagram

Facebook India's video push, helped by partnerships, to get stronger

Facebook Live viewership jumped 50% as entertainment and culture moved online once the lockdown restrictions were put in place.

Facebook launches Instagram Lite in 170 lower bandwidth countries

Instagram Lite will be available for Android-based phon­es and require less bandwidth than the traditional version

Kohli becomes first cricketer to have 100 million followers on Instagram

Virat Kohli became the first cricketer in the world to have 100 million followers on social media platform Instagram

Draft norms for influencer advertising: What ASCI wants from social media

Broadly, the ASCI has proposed rules for social media influencers who promote or run paid content without adequate disclosures

If Big Tech has the will, research can show the way to self-regulation

Research shows three key ways social media self-regulation can work: deprioritize engagement, label misinformation and crowdsource accuracy verification

Facebook, Instagram ramp up removal of hate speech, bullying content

Facebook has removed 26.9 mn pieces of hate speech content in the fourth quarter of 2020 -- up from 22.1 mn in Q3

Instagram's algorithm to limit recycled content on Reels: Report

Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is making changes to its algorithm to get more original posts on its platform

Apple iPhone 12 mini sales slow as smaller smartphones lose appeal: Report

Smartphone users have switched to larger devices in recent years as they devour more video content on-the-go and binge on visually rich social media platforms like Facebook, Insta, Tiktok and Snapchat

Instagram launches 'parents guide' for young people's safety

The social media app launched a 'parents guide' to help young people be safe on the platform

Myanmar junta extends social media blockade as protests spread against coup

Demand for VPNs has soared, allowing some people to evade the ban, but users reported more general disruption to mobile data services that most people in the country of 53 million rely on for news

Instagram testing vertical feed for Stories to improve user experience

Facebook-owned Instagram is now working on new vertical feed for Stories, the way TikTok first used and Reels on Instagram has already cloned the feature

Instagram tests disabling option for users to share feed posts to Stories

Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is conducting a test which stops some users from sharing feed posts within their Stories.

Forget TikTok. Audio-based Clubhouse is social media's next big thing

Since its launch last March, Clubhouse has increasingly become a cultural phenomenon. With its success and prominent backing, it may now be poised to upend the entire social media space

Facebook has no plan to reinstate Trump's account across apps: Adam Mosseri

Facebook has no plan to reinstate the outgoing US President Donald Trumps account on any of its platforms as of now, Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, has said.

As tech giants banish Donald Trump, here's the next big question

Major tech platforms have shown him the door in the wake of his incitement of violence by supporters at the US Capitol on January 6. He's gone from Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat even Shopify

Technology firms under attack after Parler goes dark, Twitter drops

The tech giants are trying to distance themselves from accusations they helped fuel the violence during the storming of the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6