Encrypted instant messaging app Signal has tried to run a series of Instagram ads to show the amount of data the social media platform and its parent company Facebook collect about users and how it uses the data to push targeted ads. But that attempt was quickly shut down by Facebook, Signal said in a blog post.

Facebook is considering launching a version of its popular photo social media platform, Instagram, for children under the age of 13. BuzzFeed News first reported Facebook announced in an internal company post that the company would begin building a version of Instagram for people under the age of 13 years to allow them to “safely” use Instagram for the first time. Currently the company does not allow people who are under this age to create an account on the platform.

Instagram is making it harder for creeps by preventing adults from sending DMs to teens that don't follow them, and making it harder to find those teens.

Instagram recommended false claims about COVID-19, vaccines and the 2020 U.S. election to people who appeared interested in related topics, according to a new report from a group that tracks online misinformation. "The Instagram algorithm is driving people further and further into their own realities, but also splitting those realities apart so that some people are getting no misinformation whatsoever and some people are being driven more and more misinformation," said Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which conducted the study.

Gina Carano, who plays Cara Dune on both seasons of Disney Plus’ “The Mandalorian,” garnered backlash on social media Wednesday after sharing several controversial posts

What made Facebook grow big wasn't what its targets would have been without it, it was what they were able to do with it.

HBO's 'Fake Famous' features an experiment where three Instagram users try to boost their social media followings using tricks sometimes employed by top influencers.

There’s an incredible, immediate intimacy in opening your phone, seeing that someone is live on Instagram, and clicking over to see their face staring straight into yours.

American teens still love Snap's Snapchat more than ByteDance's TikTok and Facebook's Instagram, according to Piper Sandler's latest "Taking Stock with Teens" survey, which polled 9,800 U.S. teens regarding their favorite brands.

After Kylie Jenner posted bikini photos to Instagram, nearly 50,000 people registered to vote for the 2020 election.

Sir David Attenborough has joined Instagram in a bid to share his environmentalist views with a larger audience. The legendary broadcaster shared his first post on Thursday. In the short video, the 94-year-old described saving the planet as “a communications challenge”.

In October of 2017, Facebook denied listening to people's conversations to target ads. At the time, Facebook users all over the world reported weird coincidences where advertisements on Facebook had matched recent conversations they had had that were otherwise unrelated to their online activity.

Accounts like @little.miss.patriot, who gained hundreds of thousands of followers by posting right-wing conspiracy theories on Instagram, were booted by the platform.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made it no secret that he wants all of the company’s apps to be one big happy family. However, that’s easier said than done, especially considering that many people who use Instagram, Facebook’s crown jewel, don’t want to go anywhere near the big blue app. It may be a little bit harder to stay away in the near future, though.

Instagram has awarded a security researcher a $6,000 bug bounty payout after he found photos and private direct messages on the platform's servers that he had deleted more than a year ago (via TechCrunch).

Instagram is accused of illegally harvesting people's biometric data without their knowledge or consent in a new class action lawsuit filed against Facebook, Instagram's parent company.

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A model from Australia went blind tattooing her eyeballs and has decided to share a picture where she looks almost unrecognizable throwback photo to when she was 18 years old and had no tattoos. Her name Amber Luke and she is now covered from head to toe and even her eyeballs in tattoos.

We have already covered here some apps that were caught accessing users’ clipboard thanks to a new feature of iOS 14, but that’s not all. The next major update to Apple’s mobile operating system also indicates when an app is using the camera or microphone, and that has just exposed Instagram’s app.

A new study in Psychological Reports suggests that personality influences how people use social media