Meta ‘Cannot Be Trusted With Our Children’ Whistleblower Says
A Meta whistleblower testified before Congress Tuesday, raising concerns regarding safety issues at the tech conglomerate.
A Meta whistleblower testified before Congress Tuesday, raising concerns regarding safety issues at the tech conglomerate.
A new app called "Wrapped for Instagram" -- that claims to show users who are looking at their profiles -- has gone viral this week. However, the app is already causing privacy concerns.
Instagram is testing a "holiday bonus" concept that will reward creators based on the performance of their Reels and photos.
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.
I must admit, reviewing the new Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses is something I never thought I would be doing. I was excited to give them a try though, and hey, they do have a camera in them after all.
After Meta announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) models were trained on public Instagram and Facebook posts; it began allowing people to "opt-out" of the training data.
Meta has developed an artificially intelligent (AI) system that can scan a human brain and quickly replicate the images that a person is thinking about -- in a matter of milliseconds.
A new tool created by a team at the University of Chicago can add undetectable pixels to images to help creatives protect their work from AI image generators by effectively poisoning (corrupting) the AI's training data.
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.
Instagram will soon let users add polls to the comments section of their photo posts and Reels.
A photographer had his business destroyed after Facebook scammers wiped seven years of his images, videos, and customer orders from his social media account.
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.
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.
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta announced Wednesday a new line of smart Ray-Ban glasses that bring a host of upgrades.
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.
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.
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).
Meta is planning to roll out the web version of Threads -- one of its most-requested features -- over the next few days.
WhatsApp, a Meta-owned app, is finally letting users share high definition (HD) quality photos -- with support for HD videos reportedly coming soon too.
Users of Meta's Portal products are reportedly receiving notifications that the devices will no longer support photo and video sharing starting at the end of August.
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.
A new study by Internews shows that Meta's Trusted Partner program is coming up woefully short in its mission to protect people.
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta began removing news links on both sites in Canada this week.
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."
Threads has rolled out its most substantial update since its launch nearly three weeks ago and released the highly requested "Following" tab in the app.
Threads has seen a nearly 70% decline in the number of daily active users since its peak -- as user engagement on Meta's Twitter-rival app continues to fall dramatically.
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.
This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, Chris, Jordan, and Jaron discuss a Fujifilm X100V that you are even less likely to own than the standard one, a weird Nikon lens that is so rare the seller wants $146,000 for it, changes to the L mount alliance, and a discussion about whether or not you should show your children's faces in photos online.
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.
Facebook's owner Meta claims to have built a state-of-the-art AI image generator that requires less computational power and needs less training data that the models currently on the market.
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.