Instagram May Soon Let You Create Your Own ‘AI Friend’
Instagram appears to be working on a new feature that will let users make their very own customizable "AI Friend."
Instagram appears to be working on a new feature that will let users make their very own customizable "AI Friend."
Meta has announced that it will offer an ad-free subscription option for Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union (EU) -- that will cost from $11 (9.99 Euros) per month.
TechCrunch describes the social media photo-sharing app Daylyy as the "anti-Instagram."
A group of 33 states are suing Meta for allegedly harming young people’s mental health by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook to hook children to its platforms.
TikTok is testing the ability for users to upload 15-minute videos -- in a further move to compete with YouTube.
Instagram will soon let users add polls to the comments section of their photo posts and Reels.
Instagram users just retained a bit more privacy online as the Meta-owned app now lets its users tell Instagram not to track their activity across the web.
New York officials are introducing two bills that would limit children’s access to “addictive” social media feeds and protect kids' mental health online by changing the way they are served content.
Instagram is testing out multiple audience lists for Stories -- which are the vertical, full-screen photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours.
Meta is reportedly planning to charge European Union (EU) users to access an ad-free version of Instagram or Facebook -- while TikTok is testing a monthly subscription service that eliminates ads.
This week, Meta unveiled a host of new AI-powered features that would soon roll out to its products and services. One new addition is Meta AI, a virtual assistant that will soon live on its apps and was trained using Instagram and Facebook posts.
Meta seems to be going all in on artificial intelligence (AI) as the company announced a suite of new AI features, including image generation and editing, across its apps Wednesday's Connect event.
Meta will finally let users delete their Threads account without losing their Instagram account.
A hidden setting on Instagram may be making many users' photos and Reels look significantly worse.
A photographer is suing model and television personality Chrissy Teigen for allegedly posting his photo of actress Katie Holmes without permission on her Instagram story.
Meta may be doing something that was once thought of as unthinkable: going ad-free -- for a price.
Instagram is now pushing Recommended Threads among traditional feed posts in a bid to bring users back to the Meta's text-first social media app.
Instagram is internally testing the ability to increase the length of Reels from three minutes to 10 minutes -- in an apparent bid to compete with the long-form video content available on TikTok and YouTube.
For now, Meta seems to be sticking with plans to release a second-generation version of the Ray-Bay Stories smart glasses, and a new report says that they will support live streaming and will even "whisper" comments on the stream into the user's ear.
A baby dolphin is believed to be dead after a man picked it up and held it out of water for an Instagram photo.
TikTok is about to start integrating ads into search results -- meaning that users will get branded content alongside traditional videos when they search in the video app.
Instagram and Facebook will soon offer Stories and Reels in chronological order to European users -- as Meta prepares to comply with the European Union’s (EU) new Digital Services Act (DSA).
Instagram will now let users add music to their photo carousels and collaborate with up to three individuals as co-authors on a post or Reel.
An energy drinks company has sued a competitor for allegedly copying its ad campaign with Kim Kardashian and creating a nearly identical photo with a different model.
Former supermodel Paulina Porizkova has revealed that she is now "terrified" of posting on Instagram after she was sued by a photographer.
As Meta continues to work on its generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including an AI image generator that Meta claims is unrivaled, Meta appears to have ramped up development on numerous generative AI features for its apps, including labels that will allow creators to mark images as "generated by Meta AI."
Instagram is bringing subscriptions support to eligible creators in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the United Kingdom over the next several weeks.
Threads has rolled out its first major feature update since its launch two weeks ago -- after reportedly losing half of its active users.
Instagram has beaten a class of photographers in a lawsuit that claimed the Meta-owned platform contributes to copyright infringement by letting outside websites embed images.
The engagement on Meta's Twitter rival app Threads has already dropped off -- after it hit 100 million users barely a week after its launch.
"Apparently losing rights to data and legal recourse is not enough of a reason to inspect online contracts. So how can websites get users to read the fine print?" asks The Guardian. Perhaps people will listen to them if only to lull themselves to sleep.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been called to testify about the complicity of its social media platforms in facilitating an "extraordinary" number of human trafficking cases.
A terrifying new ad campaign featuring a deepfaked girl is warning parents against sharing photos and videos of their kids on social media.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making news for more than Meta's popular new Twitter killer, Threads, the famous CEO posted a family portrait on Instagram that has caused a stir across social media.
Instagram's Threads app has hit 100 million users barely a week since its launch -- making Meta's Twitter rival app easily the fastest growing app ever.
Meta, formerly Facebook, is no stranger to ripping off features from other social networks and hopping on popular trends. But this time, with Threads, the company finally picked a good time and a good angle to play copycat.
An alarming detail about the newly-launched Threads app has come to light -- deleting a Threads account will also delete your Instagram account.
Threads, an Instagram App is available now. Meta's much-anticipated Twitter competitor aims to capitalize on Twitter's recent woes following Elon Musk's takeover last year and offering users a new text-based social network platform free from all the drama.
Meta is letting people peek behind the curtain and learn how the company uses artificial intelligence (AI) to determine what people see when using Meta's apps, including Facebook and Instagram.
A photographer who paid $50,000 to an agency that promised to drastically grow her business by among other things, providing 100,000 Instagram followers, has sued after allegedly seeing no uptick in business.