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Instagram is a Meta-owned photo and video sharing social network featuring Reels short-form video, Stories, and messaging.
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Reported losses to criminals who hijack UK email and social media accounts reached 6.3 million pounds in 2025-26, up from 1.2 million, police data shows. The base is small, but fraud that borrows a person's identity gives employers a reason to review how staff log in.
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YouTube changed Shorts recommendations on Oct. 2 to show fewer clips re-uploaded from other creators without additions of their own. Podcasters and streamers who rent reach through clip accounts now have to pay for original commentary or real editing to keep it.
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Dutch privacy authority AP warned that sharing camera-glasses footage breaks GDPR unless every person in the frame consented. For teams building camera products, that puts a per-person consent check on the code path that shares footage.
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Meta is rolling out Edits Assistant, a chatbot that reads creators' Reels retention, shares and follows, with higher usage limits sold from $14.99 a month. Free use stops at a daily cap Meta has not published, so creators cannot tell in advance where the paywall starts.
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Apple's iPhone Duo goes on pre-order October 16 and reaches buyers October 23, with a front camera on each of its two screens. Apps that open the front camera or assume a single screen have about three weeks to be tested against a device Apple has so far described mostly by its cameras.
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UConn researchers coded 194 Instagram posts by three women astronauts and found them deliberately pairing science with personal, feminine content. Because the analysis covered the posts themselves, it documents a strategy without testing whether that strategy makes audiences trust the science more.
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Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says the UK's under-16 social media ban, due in March, is only a staging post toward a more interventionist state. Platforms preparing for that deadline are building for a first tranche, with more promised by the minister now in charge.
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Meta has released seven new apps so far in 2026, betting that AI makes shipping easier and that its recommendation systems can scale the ones people want. What Meta now has to ration is the in-house promotion that grew Threads, and the harder call is which launches to close.
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Qustodio says Australian teens were back online at pre-ban levels within months of the under-16 social media ban, largely via false ages and VPNs. Meta's teen limits, New York City's classroom AI ban and any workplace AI rule written for company devices face the same test.
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Meta will let games built in its two new AI tools, Horizon Create and Horizon Studio, play inside Facebook and Instagram feeds with no download. For a Horizon platform that has struggled to draw players, the feed slot matters more to creators than the prompt box.
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Korea's registered social-media sellers reported 33.31 billion won of business income in 2024, more than 18 times the 2020 figure. The tax agency says it has limited means to check those sales, so the total counts only what sellers chose to declare.
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Researchers searching #womenshealth from a new Instagram account found 39% of 472 posts selling a product or service. Only 7% cited scientific evidence, and because the account was new, the figures describe the first view a stranger gets from a search.
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A public view will count from the first frame across all formats. Payouts do not change, but every dashboard, deal and case study priced on public views now spans two different metrics.
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California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey say features built to extend teen sessions are the defect. A court has already dismissed Meta's Section 230 appeal in the case.
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The 16MB download matters less than what it plugs into: Instagram and Facebook accounts, ad campaigns and Google Workspace, with Meta's training and ad-targeting policy attached.
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Nightclubs, restaurants and DEFCON banned Meta glasses because they film. The new audio pair drops the camera, keeps the microphones and the Muse agent, and from the front it looks like an ordinary Ray-Ban.
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California's AG says the child-safety case is about civil penalties and restitution, not damages. The exposure sits between $200 billion and $1.4 trillion, plus an order to strip features.
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A federal jury in Oakland is hearing that Meta built addictive products for children. After a $6m bellwether loss, retention design now sits in the same risk register as privacy.
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Adam Mosseri conceded under oath that only a few percent of teens used Take a Break before it was switched on by default. Internal decks and a design director explain why.
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Default 2-hour caps, a midnight-to-6am block and age assurance are now written down, with a contingent payment attached to Snap, TikTok and YouTube adopting the same defaults.
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