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Instagram discrimination: platform uses 'lower quality' videos for clips with negligible views

Some users have noticed that certain videos on Instagram appear blurry while others are clear. It turns out that this discrepancy isn’t always tied to the quality of the original material. The reason is that the video quality on Instagram is influenc...

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Instagram blocked an "Adam Driver, Megalopolis" request with a warning about child sexual abuse

Since yesterday, Instagram and Facebook have blocked the search query "Adam Driver, Megalopolis" with a warning about content that may be related to child sexual abuse. “We believe that your search query may be related to child sexual abuse. Child s...

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Meta fined nearly $102 million for storing passwords as plain text

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta $101.5 million. The penalty was imposed due to violations of user password storage regulations. The issue was discovered in January 2019 when it became clear that some user passwords were sto...

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Not three years later: Meta banned Russian state media on Facebook and Instagram

The company Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, has announced a ban on RT and other Russian state media across its platforms. Currently, the RT pages are absent on Facebook and Instagram. For many years, Meta had implemented m...

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Cristiano Ronaldo set a world record by amassing a billion followers on social media

Ronaldo has the highest number of followers on Instagram — nearly 640 million. Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first person in the world to reach one billion followers on social media. The athlete personally announced this ach...

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"Don't bark at me!": a Chinese robot dog set a youtuber on fire over his behavior

The American vlogger IShowSpeed decided to showcase a Chinese robotic dog. When he asked the robot to bark and started barking himself, the dog responded by spraying him with fire. The YouTuber IShowSpeed is known for his impulsive and sometimes cont...

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Instagram adds new creative tools: text and images on top of your photos

Instagram has enhanced its creative tools, enabling users to make their posts more varied. The platform now allows for the easy addition of text and extra images to photos, applicable to both single posts and carousels. The company claims that "this ...

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India's navy 'greenlit' the movement of its nuclear weapons through an Instagram shot of yoga

The Indian Navy integrated yoga into its training routines decades ago and has recently begun conducting sessions aboard its warships — while also flaunting photos on Instagram, inadvertently revealing the movements of classified nuclear weapons. Pu...

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Turkey blocks Instagram without explanation - media link decision to Hamas leader's assassination

Recently, the country criticized Instagram for the mass deletion of posts expressing condolences over the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya. Turkey has blocked access to the social media platform Instagram, according to a statement from the local i...

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Instagram bloggers can create chatbots that respond to fan messages

Next time you send a message to a creator on Instagram, be aware that you might be conversing with artificial intelligence. Meta is gradually launching AI Studio on Instagram — a toolkit that will allow influencers, among other things, to create thei...

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"But we're better than Google and OpenAI, aren't we?": Meta gets in the way of training its AI on Facebook and Instagram posts

The Meta Corporation has announced that starting today, it will begin training its AI on posts on Facebook and Instagram that were published by citizens of the UK or EU countries. However, not everyone agrees with this, reports SkyNews. Legal problem...

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What happened to Facebook? Meta social networks drowned in fakes, while generated ones denote real photos

Chances are you've recently come across Facebook posts asking for likes to support handsome brothers fighting for Ukraine, or a grandmother who knitted a tank, baked the world's largest "palyanitsia" - and if you are familiar with the art of neural n...

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Following the example of YouTube. Meta launches Instagram ads that cannot be missed

Advertising is the biggest source of revenue for Meta, so the company plans to make it even more intrusive on Instagram. According to social media reports, Instagram users have noticed a new type of advertisement in the app, similar to YouTube, that...

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Instagram will blur nudes sent to Direct to teens

Instagram will start testing a feature that blurs messages containing images of nude bodies. The main goal of this innovation is to protect teenagers and prevent contact with potential scammers. Meta has announced that the protection feature for Dir...

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Canadian school boards sue TikTok, Meta and SnapChat - platforms are interfering with children's lives and education

Four of the largest school boards in the Canadian province of Ontario have initiated legal proceedings against TikTok, Meta, and SnapChat, alleging that social media platforms are disrupting the learning process. The plaintiffs are seeking damages ex...

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