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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to employees after the company confirmed it would lay off 11,000 staff, equivalent to 13 percent of its workforce.

Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is planning to begin layoffs that will affect thousands of workers this week.

After a disastrous earnings report, Meta’s plans involve doing more of the same. In this case, by leaning further into NFTs and letting creators mint their own on Instagram.

Instagram was down Monday morning, which would normally be bad enough. However, the outage then locked users out with the notification that their accounts had been suspended.

Meta has revealed that Instagram now has two billion monthly active users worldwide, closing in on the 2.96 billion who use Facebook.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, continued its free fall in 2022. The company had more than $65 billion wiped off its market value after it reported another quarter of declining revenues.

Meta has defeated a photographer in a lawsuit that claims Facebook contributes to copyright infringement by letting outside websites embed images shared on the social media platform. However, a San Francisco federal judge has given the photographer permission to file a new complaint.

Tech conglomerate Meta will lose its grip on at least one app it has taken over: Giphy.

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 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.