All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens
Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agr…
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Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"
Meta to impose daily limit on child social media use in deal with nearly every state.
Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states
One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be disabled with parental permis…
Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ trims your Reels clips for you
Instagram is launching a new Reels-editing feature that automatically trims your video clips to focus on the highlights. The feature, called First D…
Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money
Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themse…
Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’
Robin Williams' children are taking over their father's Instagram account after his daughter spoke out against the use of his AI likeness, as report…
Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam
Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It does…
Instagram introduces a redesigned wordmark
The social media giant says it was time for a sharper and more modern look after a decade.
This is Instagram’s new logo
Instagram has unveiled a new wordmark, moving away from the recognizable cursive typeface it's used over the last decade. The updated wordmark is a…
Social media platforms still facing thousands of user addiction lawsuits after failed appeals
Platforms like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google are facing a long road of litigation.
The vertical video takeover is here
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on all things vertical video, follow David…
Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts
With the new "Replace Audio" tool, users can update the music on their post at any time while keeping the post's existing likes, comments, shares, a…
Instagram will let users endlessly swap the audio on old posts
There's a symbiotic - and sometimes frustrating - relationship between social media sites and the creators that depend on them. Platforms need influ…
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
Meta told Dylan Byers, of Puck News, that it had nixed the feature after backlash from its user base.
Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts
Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from publi…
Disable auto-play and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta
Digital Services Act may force Meta to make big changes on its platforms.
EU threatens Meta with fines over addictive features on Facebook and Instagram
The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the highly p…
Instagram’s Adam Mosseri: If you don’t like AI, ‘then you shouldn’t have it in your feed’
Though Instagram head Adam Mosseri doesn't want to filter out AI content on the platform, he argues that you "shouldn't have it in your feed" if you…
Instagram and Facebook will likely require a redesign after EU rules they’re ‘addictive’
Meta is in breach of the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), a preliminary investigation has found, over the "addictive" design of Instagram and Facebo…
How to stop Meta’s AI image generator from using your Instagram photos
Meta's new AI image generator is using your public Instagram photos unless you opt out. Here's how to do that.
Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos
Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now powers the image-making…
Instagram is testing more ways to customize ‘Your Algorithm’
Instagram users could soon see more ways to tune their content.
Instagram wants to monopolize your attention
This week, Instagram launched a series of new features for its smart TV app that are all designed to get people to spend more time on the platform t…
New website names and shames companies that still don’t offer passkeys to users
According to a new site, 24% of the most popular websites in the world don't offer support for passkeys, which are considered the most secure way to…
Instagram looks to take on streaming services with longer-form, episodic and live formats for its TV app
Instagram is coming for streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video as it sets its ambitions for living room viewing.
Social media’s next evolution: User-controlled algorithms
Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence…
UK unveils sweeping social media ban for users under 16
The ban would apply to a range of social media platforms including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X.
Meta’s Edits app is getting an AI assistant and a desktop version
By integrating an AI assistant directly into Edits, Meta is aiming to keep creators engaged on Instagram as it continues to compete with TikTok and…
You can just tell the Instagram algorithm what you want now
Instagram is going to let you tweak what its algorithm shows you on your main feed. With the Your Algorithm feature, "you can now see the topics we…
Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds
Meta is planning to use the data shared by other businesses to personalize your feed and its AI responses. In a blog post on Tuesday, Meta explains…