It’s official: Instagram is becoming a place to mint and sell NFT. Sigh
Nov 3, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Earlier this year, it was announced that Instagram would become an NFT market in addition to being… Well, everything else. It looks like NFTs are…
Instagram surpasses 2 billion active monthly users… Or does it?
Oct 28, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Meta has announced that Instagram now has over two billion monthly active users worldwide. Four years after hitting the 1 billion mark, the number has…
UK orders Meta to sell Giphy, and it’s final
Oct 19, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Back in 2020, Facebook (now Meta) bought Giphy, by which it became one of several mainstream platforms under its wing. But UK’s watchdog says enough….
British ruling blames Instagram and Pinterest for a teen girl’s suicide
Oct 3, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
After a 14-year-old girl took her own life several years ago, both her parents and the public wondered how big of a role social media…
You can now cross-post Instagram Reels to Facebook
Aug 17, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Instagram likes Reels. It likes them so much that it turns all your videos into them, and now it lets you cross-post them to Facebook…
Meta acknowledges Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses privacy issues but isn’t really doing anything about them
Jul 15, 2022
John Aldred
Last September, the then Facebook teamed up with Ray-Ban to give us the new Ray-Ban Stories, their first pair of “smart glasses”. They combined the…
Zuckerberg: Meta won’t take any revenue from Facebook and Instagram creators until 2024
Jun 22, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
If you’re making money from Instagram and Facebook content, here’s some good news. Meta has announced that it won’t take a cut of your revenue…
Meta doesn’t even hide anymore that it wants to be TikTok
Jun 17, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
I think it’s clear to all of us that Meta is trying its best to look as much as possible like TikTok. Reels, auto-generated captions,…
Instagram and Snapchat sued for addiction leading to teen boy’s suicide
Apr 13, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Another lawsuit has been filed against Snap Inc. and Meta and their impact on a teen’s mental health. The Social Media Victim Law Center sued…
Russia bans Facebook and Instagram after Meta allows violent posts against Russians
Mar 14, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Earlier this month, Russia decided to ban Facebook citing “discrimination against Russian media.” But as of today, Instagram is banned in this country, too. One…