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Meta Says AI Recommendations Drove Double‑Digit Growth in Instagram Time Spent

LLM analysis of public posts made recommendations more personalized, boosting engagement.

Instagram Lets Users Replace Audio on Published Posts

EU Says Facebook and Instagram Were Designed to Create Addiction in Preliminary DSA Finding

EU Charges Meta Over Addictive Design of Facebook and Instagram

PIL Asks Supreme Court to Order New Rules for Stand‑Up, Social Media and AI Content

Frank Buschmann Quits Instagram and Ends His Social‑Media Presence

Lawyer Says Custom AI Fueled $6 Million Win Over Meta and Google

TikTok Launches £3.99 Ad-Free Subscription in the UK

Instagram Tests Instants, a Standalone App for One-Tap Disappearing Photos

Instagram Deactivates Anne Wünsche's Account, Erasing About One Million Followers

X Hit by Repeated Short Outages, Disrupting Feeds, Logins and Posts

Berlin Court Bars Meta From Using Non-User Contacts, Limits Ad Profiling Without Consent

Los Angeles Trial Opens Accusing Meta and Google of Engineering Youth Addiction

EU Finds TikTok in Breach of DSA for 'Addictive' Design, Orders App Changes

Instagram Outage Triggers More Than 10,000 Reports, Hitting Website Hardest

Spain Moves to Ban Social Media for Under-16s, Unveils Five-Measure Platform Crackdown

ABC News Regains Control After Facebook Page Is Hijacked via Staff Account

WhatsApp Code Points to Optional Ad‑Free Subscription

Moca Says TikTok Live Ban Lifts Today as Peru’s Prosecutors Cite Her Over Pregnancy Remarks

X Open-Sources 'For You' Algorithm Matching Live Grok-Based System