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Instagram Debuts Bolder Script Wordmark After a Decade

Meta presents the new mark with three typefaces as a modernization that will roll out across platforms through 2026.

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Federal Trial Begins Over States’ Claims That Meta Designed Apps To Hook Children

U.S. States Put Meta on Trial Over Alleged Design-Driven Addiction of Minors

Reddit Expands LLM Moderation Tool to New Subreddits as Moderators Push Back

WhatsApp Outage and Mass Account Suspensions Disrupt Users Worldwide

TikTok Agrees to Settle Three Bellwether Teen Lawsuits

New York Finalizes Age Verification Rules for Kids’ Social Media Access

Meta Brings Its AI Assistant Into Threads Direct Messages

Teen Drops Bellwether Suit, Ending Los Angeles Trial Against Meta

Instagram Lets Users Replace Audio on Published Posts

UK Proposes Default Midnight–6am Social Media Curfew for 16‑ and 17‑Year‑Olds

UK to Block Nighttime Social Media for 16- and 17-Year-Olds

X Tweaks Algorithm to Surface Replies From Mutuals

European Commission Finds Facebook and Instagram Designed to Encourage Compulsive Use

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

EU Charges Meta Over Addictive Design of Facebook and Instagram

EU Concludes Meta’s Facebook and Instagram Use 'Addictive' Design

EU Tells Meta to Turn Off Addictive Design Features or Face Big Fines

Meta Launches Muse Image and Uses Public Instagram Photos by Default

Discord Says Bug Caused Thousands of Wrongful Bans for Grid Images