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

Instagram has taken the decision to ban any content promoting so-called "conversion therapy" on its platform. Conversion therapy is the name given to any practice which purports that people can be "cured" of their sexual orientation or gender identity. "It is based on an assumption that being lesbian, gay, bi or trans is a mental illness that can be 'cured'. These therapies are both unethical and harmful," according to LGBTQ charity Stonewall.

An exclusive investigation reveals that Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women, shaping the behavior of content creators and the worldview of 140 millions Europeans in what remains a blind spot of EU regulations. 

Though the Facebook-owned app doesn't give users complete control, there are ways to limit the data it collects and the types of ads you see.

These tips will help you safely tidy up your social media accounts—or give your profile a fresh start.