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Facebook, Instagram take down millions of posts in compliance with IT rules

Facebook removed 25 million pieces of content identified as 'spam,' 1.8 million pieces of content containing 'adult nudity and sexual activity.'

Twitter-inspired Instagram working on 'Exclusive Stories' feature

Inspired by the upcoming Super Follows feature of Twitter, Instagram is now working on a tool that will let creators post exclusive content to their Instagram stories only available to subscribers

WINDO raises $500,000 in seed round led by Unicorn India Ventures

WINDO, founded in 2020, by second-time entrepreneurs Silus Reddy Chintapalli, Rakesh Vaddadi, is an Instagram commerce-focused tech startup

Instagram Reels will now display advertisements for all users worldwide

The trial for the same has already taken place in countries like India, Australia, Brazil, and Germany in April.

Instagram rolls out full screen, 30-second ads in Reels globally from today

Facebook is on a huge monetisation drive and now, Instagram users globally will see ads in short-video feature Reels from Friday

Content creators on Facebook, Instagram can now earn extra payout

Facebook and its photo-sharing platform Instagram are working on new tools for this

Instagram CEO explains how photo sharing platform decides what users see

In a bid to address misconceptions that Instagram intentionally hides certain posts, its CEO Adam Mosseri has explained in detail how the Facebook-owned photo sharing platform decides what users see

Instagram tweaks algorithm after 'censoring' pro-Palestinian content

After workers accused the company of censoring pro-Palestine content, Facebook-owned Instagram has tweaked its algorithms that will begin ranking original and re-shared content equally

Storm over social media

There can't be arbitrary rules just because privacy right is not absolute

A dive into the fate of FB, Twitter, WhatsApp as new IT rules deadline ends

Tune in to the podcast to learn about the fate of these social media giants after the deadline ended in India. Also, what's their take on the matter, among other things

Instagram is working on update that will let users post from its website

Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is reportedly working on an update to its desktop website that will allow users to create posts from there as well.

Instagram to let users add up to four pronouns on their profiles

Instagram has announced to let users add up to four pronouns to their profiles, which they can then display publicly or only to their followers

Facebook oversight board to announce decision on Trump ban on May 5

Facebook Inc's independent oversight board tweeted that it would announce a decision on May 5 whether to uphold ex-US President Trump's indefinite suspension from its social media platforms

Instagram reels to feature ads, sticker ads to debut on Facebook stories

Instagram has started testing advertisements in the feature in select nations like India, Brazil, Germany, and Australia, showing them in the middle of regular content posted by users

Facebook's Instagram launches feature to tackle hate speech, abuse

Facebook Inc's Instagram is rolling out a feature to prevent users from viewing possibly abusive messages by filtering offensive words, phrases and emojis on the photo-sharing app

Users can move Oversight Board to remove harmful content from FB, Instagram

This new capability, long-sought by advocates of independent content moderation, represents an important step toward delivering a more principled and transparent model of content moderation

Instagram betting on local content to dispel 'elitist myth'

Asserts that it does not cater primarily to English-speaking base, claims launch of short video format Reels last year has further expanded its reach

Facebook, Instagram face another global outage in less than a month

Facebook and Instagram went down for millions of its users for couple of hours in various parts of the world early Friday morning

Supreme Court Justice in US suggests regulations for social media platforms

Justice Clarence Thomas said that Congress should consider whether laws should be updated to better regulate social media platforms that have "unbridled control" over "unprecedented" amounts of speech

Facebook services suffer outage with Instagram down for nearly a million

Downdetector showed there were more than 1.2 million incidents of people reporting issues with Instagram