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Less than a week after the reports indicated that Meta was investigating making a Twitter competitor, Instagram is rolling out that feature, called Notes, to all users.

Instagram has officially launched "Candid Stories" -- a new dual camera feature that copies the photo-sharing app BeReal.

Model Bella Hadid is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit after she posted an image of herself on Instagram without the photographer’s permission.

After a year of chasing TikTok's domination in short-form video, Meta is now reportedly considering building its own version of Twitter within its photo-sharing app, Instagram.

When browsing Instagram, it could be tempting to take a screenshot of a Story, particularly since the content is always changing, advancing to the next Story after only a few seconds. If you give in to that urge, you might wonder if the owner of the account gets notified about your interest and that you saved an image from their story or feed.

Instagram is expanding its Account Status page to better help users with professional accounts understand if and why their content is eligible to be recommended to non-followers, and what it can do to change that if it is not.

Los Angeles street gang photographer Merrick Morton has been kicked off Instagram for promoting "dangerous organizations."

Hive Social, an app many considered to be the new alternative to Instagram and Twitter, has completely shut down its servers to address security issues after it struggled to handle a recent surge in sign-ups.

As protests around China’s zero-Covid policy mount, police appear to be searching phones for apps like Instagram, Twitter, and Telegram, which are banned in the country, with the goal of stopping photos of the protests from being released.

Instagram has removed Weird Al Yankovic's post with his "close friend Pablo Escobar" for breaching community guidelines.

Vero has updated its terms of use to remove the word "perpetual" from the license section to make it clear that the image rights granted by users are limited to the time that users have a Vero account.

A report by the Wall Street Journal has claimed that Meta fired or disciplined more than two dozen employees and contractors over the last year who allegedly hijacked accounts and in some cases demanded bribes.

Last month, Instagram started testing the ability to add songs to profiles in a callback to the MySpace days. Audio integration into the app apparently didn't stop there, as it has already rolled out a way to add auto-playing music to posted photos.

Jerome Gence is a Paris-based photographer who has been published in National Geographic, Le Monde, and other magazines. He is also a Canon Ambassador but, surprisingly, does not have an Instagram or Facebook page because he dislikes (no pun intended) all social media.

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.

Instagram has announced that it is rolling out an in-app scheduling tool to all professional accounts.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the social media platform is facing "urgency" to make Reels work after its parent company Meta had $80 billion wiped off its market value last month.

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.

New data has revealed that the majority of creators feel "screwed" by large social media platforms and their algorithms.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri says that Reels and photos should have the same reach on the app now after the company "rebalanced things" in the last month.

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.

President Joe Biden used photo-sharing app, BeReal to encourage people to get their annual vaccines in before flu and covid season.

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.

Photo-sharing app BeReal has secured $60 million in funding, pushing its valuation to just under $587 million.

Miley Cyrus has settled a copyright infringement lawsuit a month after she was sued for posting an image of herself on Instagram without the photographer's permission.