Facebook And Instagram

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  WhatsApp, Instagram And Facebook Down For Thousands Globally

  Thousands of users across Meta Platforms's social media offerings Instagram, Threads and Facebook, and messaging app WhatsApp reported outages on Wednesday

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  Proposed Australia Law Would Fine Big Tech Over Digital Competition

  Australia's centre-left Labor government has targeted Big Tech's influence, and parliament passed a law last week that banned social media for children aged under 16.

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  Facebook, Instagram, TikTok Brace For Australian Social Media Ban Fallout

  Australia's controversial new law barring under-16s from social media is one of the toughest crackdowns yet on platforms including Facebook and TikTok as governments worldwide grasp for ways to protect children from harmful content.

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  Australia Passes Landmark Order Banning Social Media For Under-16s

  Australian lawmakers passed landmark rules to ban under 16s from social media on Thursday, approving one of the world's toughest crackdowns on popular sites like Facebook, Instagram and X.

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  Explained: How Australia's Social Media Ban For Teens Under 16 Will Be Implemented

  Communications Minister Michelle Rowland says platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram fall under the umbrella of the law.

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  Meta Will Face Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Acquisitions

  Meta will be facing a trial in a US Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking its break-up over claims that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush emerging competition in social media.

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  Meta to Offer Less Personalised Ads in Europe to Appease Regulators

  Meta Platforms plans to offer Instagram and Facebook users in Europe the option to receive "less personalised ads". These ads will also target users based on age, gender, and location, with some being unskippable for a few seconds.

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  Instagram AI Feature That Lets Users Generate Profile Pictures Spotted in Development

  Instagram might be working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to upload AI-generated images. A new leak claims that the Meta-owned social media platform is testing a feature that will allow users to use AI models to generate profile pictures using AI. While not a lot is known about the feature at this point, similar...

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  'Collector Bro' To Suspended 'Whistleblower': Kerala IAS Officer's Journey

  Kerala IAS officer N Prashanth aka 'Collector Bro', who has been suspended on disciplinary grounds after he publicly criticised a senior officer, has over 3 lakh followers on Facebook and 50,000 on Instagram

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  AI-Driven Algorithm Increases Screen Time Of Facebook, Instagram Users

  The improvement to the tech giant's AI system has led to an 8% increase in the amount of time spent on Facebook and a 6% increase on Instagram.

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  Meta To Face Lawsuits In Japan Over Fake Ads

  Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms Inc. will face fresh lawsuits in Japan over advertisements that fraudulently solicited investment funds with fake endorsements from celebrities, local media reported.

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  Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk

  Meta has removed several accounts across Threads and Instagram that were used to track celebrities’ private jets. The accounts, which rely on publicly available information to track a jet’s location and CO2 emissions, among other details, were banned without warning this week after Meta updated its privacy policy.

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  Meta Testing Facial Recognition to Spot Scam Ads That Use Celebrity Images, Faster Identity Verification

  Meta announced testing facial recognition technology to detect scam ads and assist users in faster account recovery on Monday. The social media giant is specifically targeting “celeb-bait” ad scams, where scammers use images of celebrities and public figures to lure users into interacting with the ad and clicking malicious links.

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  Instagram’s Threads Rolls Out Activity Status Indicator for Real-Time Engagement With Others

  Threads is getting a new feature that lets users see if others are online. Similar functionality is already present on Meta’s other social media apps such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, and Threads is the latest in line to add it. Like its availability on other apps, only users who have turned on this feature will be able to see the activit...

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  Facebook, Instagram Face Widespread Outage In US, Thousands Affected

  Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.