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BeReal, the "anti-Instagram" photo-sharing app that dominated Apple's App Store charts for much of last year, is already on the decline.

Amid company turmoil, Meta is chugging along with the addition of yet another new feature that is yet again eerily similar to a different social media app. In this case, Instagram takes a note from Telegram with new “broadcast Channels.”

Instagram is making its Gifts feature available to more creators in the United States. Gifts are described as a way to more easily earn money from an audience -- easy in theory, but it muddies an already confusing monetization web with Meta-owned properties.

While I was posting a series of photos on Instagram, a message appeared: "This would make a great Reel."

While Twitter did not have the smoothest rollout of its paid "verification" badges, Instagram might be toying with rolling such a feature out too if a few small references in its code are any indication of its plans.

Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, has admitted that the platform that once claimed it was no longer a photo-sharing app made a mistake and pushed video too hard to its users last year.

WhatsApp, a Meta-owned app, is working on letting users share photos in their original quality without any compression.

Instagram has added a new "Quiet Mode" setting aimed at setting focus and screen time boundaries. Quiet Mode allows users to not only turn off notifications but also to make it clear to others when they're spending time off Instagram.

Tech company executives could face jail time in the United Kingdom if their social media platforms knowingly fail to protect children online.

The nipple may soon be freed, at least on Facebook and Instagram. The oversight board for Meta, the parent company of both social media networks, advised the company to change its policy regarding bare chests.

Meta and Shutterstock will expand their business partnership, allowing the social media company to train its artificial intelligence and machine learning systems on Shutterstock's collection of millions of images.

Meta is tightening restrictions on how advertisers on Facebook and Instagram target teenage users.

Instagram is poised to remove the shopping tab from Instagram's navigation pane in a shift back towards content creation.

The public school district in Seattle has filed a lawsuit against the companies behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat, accusing them of harming young people’s mental health.

The photographer who took the record-breaking photo of Lionel Messi lifting the World Cup trophy says he's not a fan of the crop.

Instagram has released a new end-of-year feature that lets users create a 2022 Recap Reel from their photos.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is seeing a "rapid rise" in fake profile photos generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

In addition to baseline security recommendations like two-factor authentication and pushing for stronger passwords, Instagram is adding a way for users to regain control of their accounts if they have been hacked.

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.

Meta has announced a new open-source content moderation tool that allows platforms to identify and remove a range of "violating content" at scale, including terrorism, child exploitation, and other types of abuse.

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.

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."

Meta has threatened to remove news from Facebook in the U.S. if Congress passes a new media bill that would help local news publications -- with photographers being affected in a potential fallout.

Meta has added age verification to its Facebook Dating platform and will demand video selfies and ID uploads from people it suspects of lying about their age.

The Epic Games RealityScan App is now available to download on iOS. The app launched into a closed beta earlier this year and allows users to turn iPhone photos into 3D models quickly and easily.

A deepfake of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg thanked Congressional Democrats for failing to take action against the biggest tech companies in an eerily realistic video.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.