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 ...

Ever thought about marking your Instagram messages as unread? It’s a common thing when you want to read a message but aren’t ready to reply or accidentally click on it while scrolling but don’t feel ...

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

Ever had a conversation with your friend about something, and then Instagram, almost immediately, feeds you ads for that very thing? You may have thought to yourself: "Is Instagram listening to my ...

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 ...

Discovering that your Instagram account has been hacked is never going to be fun. But the good news is that it's usually fairly straightforward to get access back — and to keep yourself a bit safer in ...

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 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 ...