As Meta is struggling to revive its falling revenue in order to reverse its downward financial spiral, it is adding new ways for advertisers to clutter up your feeds. Specifically, the Explore feed and grids are about to start getting ads.
What’s old is new again, it seems. Instagram is reportedly testing a new feature that lets users... share status updates.
It doesn't look good for Meta as the company is trading at its lowest stock value since 2019, advertisers are dropping spending, and users are leaving its platforms.
CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg has announced a new artificially intelligent (AI) program called Make-A-Video that allows users to create a video from a text description.
Meta is testing two features that will integrate Facebook and Instagram more closely together and let users switch between accounts on both platforms via a new profile switching tool.
Facebook users have sued its parent company Meta for allegedly tracking them via an in-app browser on iOS devices despite the strict Apple privacy policies in place.
Instagram's bet on Reels as a way to take on TikTok isn't paying off well according to internal documents seen by The Wall Street Journal. Reels have less than one-tenth of the engagement of TikTok videos, and that number is falling.
Instagram will be testing a "repost" feature that would allow users to share other people's posts in their own feeds.
Meta has dissolved the Responsible Innovation Team, an internal group whose job it was to address "potential harms to society" that would be caused by Facebook and its products.
Meta, the parent company of Instagram, has been fined a record $402 million for letting teenagers set up accounts that publicly displayed their phone numbers and email addresses.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri admits that the company had "gone too far into video" and insists "photographers are all still relevant" on the app.
Meta is adding more paid features to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp in a bid to recoup declining advertising revenue.
Snap, the parent company of photo-sharing app Snapchat, is laying off 20 percent of its staff this week, which equates to over 1,000 employees.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Instagram "a super positive space" during a lengthy interview on The Joe Rogan Experience on Thursday.
Meta announced today that it will allow users to post their NFTs on Instagram and Facebook from one digital wallet linked to both social networks.
Snapchat is getting real. Or, it’s at least taking a cue from fellow social media company BeReal with its new dual camera feature.
Instagram announced Thursday that it will make its most restrictive content filter the default setting for new users under 16 years old.
Instagram is testing a new feature that copies the photo-sharing app BeReal, which continues to hold on to the number one spot in the U.S. on Apple’s App Store charts this week.
Facebook has been struggling to maintain its position as a "Top 10" app this year as BeReal, and TikTok continue to gain popularity.
Meta is pushing ahead with its goal of ramping up video on its platforms. This week, the company is making it possible for anyone to cross-post Instagram Reels to Facebook.
After Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to more than double the amount of "recommended" content that appears in feeds by the end of 2023, Instagram has revealed how its algorithm suggests new content to users.
Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has been injecting code into websites its users visit so that the company can track them across the internet after they click links in its apps.
What a week it has been for the world's largest photo-sharing app, although we are not sure if we can still call it that. Instagram, and its parent company Meta, has hit the headlines every day, and frankly, it has been a bit of a mess.
Instagram and Facebook are going to show even more posts from accounts that users do not follow -- after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company plans to "more than double" the amount of "recommended" content that appears in users' feeds by the end of next year.
Meta is currently experiencing a combination of financial difficulties that, in its long history, it has never faced. Its Reality Labs division continues to lose billions of dollars at the same time Facebook reported its first-ever decline in revenue.
Generation Z (Gen Z) is the only generation that reported declining use of social media in recent years after constant pivots by apps, such as Instagram, eroded younger users' trust.
Epidemic Sound has sued Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta for storing, curating, reproducing, and distributing its music without authorization to the tune of upwards of 80,000 infractions per day.
Meta's Oversight Board has announced that the company has agreed to commit an additional $150 million, which is in addition to the initial $130 million when it was founded in 2019.
Instagram has announced that starting now and rolling out over the next few weeks, anyone will be able to "remix" any public photos on the app and turn them into Reels.
The sunk cost fallacy is elongating photographers’ inevitable painful breakup with Instagram. It is time to stop hoping that Instagram will go back to being the one and only social media marketing tool that photographers need.
Facebook-owner Meta today released its first annual human rights report which highlighted "salient risks" associated with its Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses which includes problems such as "informed consent from bystanders."
New York has passed a law that will ask those seeing a concealed handgun permit to submit their social media accounts so they can be reviewed for "character and conduct."
A former Facebook employee says he was fired for raising concerns about a new company protocol that allowed staff to access deleted user data and share the information with law enforcement.
Los Angeles Lakers player Kendrick Nunn has been sued for copyright infringement by the same photographer who recently settled a copyright infringement legal battle with Nunn's superstar teammate, LeBron James.
Following massive losses in its Reality Labs division, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly told employees that the company is experiencing "one of the worst downturns [it has seen] in recent history."
Instagram has announced that it is testing three new ways to verify the ages of its users in the United States, including a partnership with Yoti that estimates age based on a facial scan.
Some of the biggest names in technology have banded together to form the Metaverse Standards Forum to create open and consistent standards for interoperability in an open metaverse.
If you have ever uploaded a photo to your social media feed and found that the image quality isn’t as good as you’d like it to be, you're not alone. Most sites that allow you to upload images will use their own set of parameters to resize and compress uploaded images to save file space and bandwidth.
Facebook isn't the only Meta property that is leaning harder into adopting more TikTok-like features. Instagram is also currently testing a full-screen feed that strongly mimics the company's rival.
According to a new report, Facebook has decided to make its feed feel more like TikTok in an attempt to better compete against what has become the biggest threat to the social media giant's bottom line.