Meta, the parent company of Instagram, is under fire for its treatment of LGBTQ+ users after journalist Taylor Lorenz revealed that the platform had restricted LGBTQ-related hashtags for months. The issue,

In a post on (where else?) Threads, Mosseri said the company will be shifting away from its opt-in requirement for users to see political content. Instead, political content will be recommended by default, and users will have the ability to adjust the fire hose with three different settings options: less, standard, and more.

Meta is ending its fact-checking program and lifting restrictions on speech to “restore free expression" across Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, admitting its current content moderation practices have “gone too far.

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Reversing a policy enacted following the 2016 presidential election, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to cancel third-party fact-checking on its social media platforms and dial back automated filters in an effort to “get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.”

Meta has not yet confirmed if or when account portability features will be added to its roadmap and federation plans for Instagram Threads,

Meta’s announcement last week of sweeping changes to how it filters content rightly drew extensive coverage focusing on how the world’s largest social media company is aligning itself politically with the incoming Trump administration.

Meta stands to be one of the largest beneficiaries if TikTok is booted from US app stores on Sunday. TikTok is facing a likely ban in the United States after the Supreme Court upheld a law on ...

Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube are getting ready behind the scenes to welcome TikTok users, should the Chinese-owned app be banned from the United States. By Mike Isaac Nico Grant and ...

Meta Platforms's Instagram was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Wednesday morning, according outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 10,440 incidents of people reporting issues with the platform as of 9:02 a.

Another wonderful quality is Meta's incredible profitability. It raked in net income of $15.7 billion on total sales of $40.6 billion in the third quarter, leading to robust free cash flow that fuels dividends and share repurchases. This boosts investor returns.