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Instagram's Campus Program Adds New Feature: Verified-Students-Only Stories and Club Channels
Instagram is expanding its School Partnership Program, letting partner schools set up clubs and channels to post exclusive content that only UNiDAYS-verified students can view. The feature is rolling out now.
Meta pays $17.1 billion to combat youth internet addiction, Instagram and Facebook will set curfews and time limits
The lawsuit brought against Meta by 29 states including California ended with a settlement of US$17.1 billion. Facebook and Instagram will implement new rules for underage users such as daily time limits, midnight disconnection and muting during school hours.
Meta pleads guilty to a $18 billion fine, and IG’s new limited-time rules force YouTube and TikTok to follow suit
Meta agreed to pay nearly $18 billion in fines due to youth safety lawsuits, IG will set a two-hour usage limit, and the $5.3 billion settlement is tied to whether YouTube, TikTok, and Snapchat will follow suit.
Mosseri Testifies "This Is the First I'm Hearing of This" — Instagram Teen Safety Data Interception Scandal
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri testified in Meta's social media addiction lawsuit, denying knowledge that staff were asked to restrict teen safety data from reaching him, while the judge also questioned on the spot why another executive was unaware of feature usage rates.
Instagram Rolls Out First Draft Feature to Auto-Trim Dead Space in Reels
Instagram has launched a new editing tool called First Draft that automatically trims pauses and silences from video footage, launching first on iOS. Notably, the official announcement never mentions "AI" once, a choice foreign media see as a deliberate move to distance the tool from Meta's recent wave of AI features.
Instagram Ads So Spot-On They Feel Like Mind-Reading? There's No Master Switch—You Have to Turn Them Off One by One
Instagram doesn't have a one-click switch to stop tracking. Meta says its ad targeting relies on data sent back by partner businesses, not on your phone's microphone. If you want to limit how your data is used for ads and AI, you'll need to adjust several separate settings.
Meta AI Launches Mac Desktop App, Screen Sharing Feature Targets Small Business Owners
Meta AI has launched a standalone Mac desktop app with new screen sharing and Google Workspace integration features, targeting creators and businesses that run their operations on Facebook and Instagram.
Robin Williams' Instagram Revived After 12 Years of Silence, His Kids: Fighting AI Deepfakes with Real Footage
Twelve years after Robin Williams passed away, his three children Zak, Zelda, and Cody have reactivated his Instagram account—not for nostalgia, but to dilute the flood of AI deepfake content online with authentic material.
Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Claim as Social Media Addiction Trial Kicks Off in Oakland This Week
A California federal court begins hearing Meta's social media addiction case this week, with 29 states alleging violations of COPPA children's privacy law and seeking damages of up to $1.4 trillion. Meta calls the figure "outrageous," and even the judge has called it unreasonable.
Instagram Changes Its Font for the First Time in a Decade, and Netizens' First Reaction Is "Instagzam"
Instagram has updated its wordmark for the first time in ten years, switching to a hybrid font that's half handwritten, half print. The twisted styling of letters like g, s, and r has left netizens reading it as an entirely different word.
Instagram's New Logo Fuses the "t" and "a" Together—What Word Do You See First?
Adam Mosseri personally unveiled the new wordmark, calling it "cleaner and more modern"—but the half-script, half-print mashup makes it read like "Instagzam" at first glance.