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The ability to tag products in Feed posts on Instagram is rolling out to all users today, enabling any photo to act as an advertisement.

Facebook wants to make it easier for anyone to share short-form videos, or Reels, from other apps through a dedicated new button that will send content directly to their Facebook accounts.

Epic Games, the company behind both the Unreal Engine and video game Fortnite, has announced the limited beta release of a new mobile app that turns photos into three-dimensional (3D) scans.

A new report found that Facebook was accidentally elevating harmful content for the past six months instead of suppressing it. A second report found that its internal policies may have resulted in the underreporting of photos of child abuse.

Instagram has announced several new messaging features including the ability to share music previews, send a message silently, the ability to see who’s online and available to chat, the ability to reply while browsing a feed, and more.

More than five years after the company did away with the chronological feed in lieu of an algorithm-based system, Instagram has officially brought it back after teasing its return yesterday.

Instagram may soon release the much-anticipated chronological feed, if a solution to a recently-posted word puzzle is to be believed. Instagram has already confirmed the feature is coming, making its appearance here feel like more than a coincidence.

Instagram has announced that its product tagging feature is coming to everyone in the United States over the next few months as part of its overarching goal to move away from photography and towards video and shopping.

Instagram has made good on its promise to add more parental controls to its app with the launch of Family Center, a hub where parents can access supervision controls and resources from experts.

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says that NFTs are "hopefully" coming to Instagram in the next few months. Additionally, he said that the company plans to allow users to mint them within the application.

Just a week after Russia announced that it had banned Facebook, Meta's other popular platform Instagram will be blocked in the country on March 14.

Meta's Head of Youth Pavni Diwanji, who was responsible for overseeing Instagram's highly controversial version of its product aimed at children, is leaving Meta as part of a restructuring.

Russian prosecutors have reportedly asked a court to ban Meta's Facebook and Instagram and called the two social network platforms "extremist." If approved, it would criminalize the operations of the two companies in Russia.

Following a series of decisions made in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Meta has announced that Instagram will demote posts linking to Russian state media and take steps to protect the identity of those in Ukraine and Russia.

Instagram has pulled the Boomerang and Hyperlapse apps from the Apple and Google app stores. While the company was expected to wind down the IGTV app, the removal of these two apps was a surprise.

Russian officials have announced that access to Meta-owned platform Facebook has been blocked in the country in response to what it says has been Meta's repeated discriminatory actions against Russian media.

Instagram has announced that it is adding automatic captions to videos uploaded to the platform. The feature follows TikTok, which has enabled auto captions since last April.

More than 11 years after it first launched and Instagram still has no native iPad app. Adam Mosseri, the company's head, says that fact isn't likely to change any time soon.

Instagram has quietly eliminated the lower tiers of its daily usage time limits. The 10 and 15-minute options are gone, replaced with 30 minutes as the minimum. The app also gives priority placement to the three-hour limit option.

Instagram has announced a change to Stories: instead of all reactions automatically appearing in the recipient's inbox, users can now like a Story without sending a message and all likes can only be visible to the Story owner.