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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.
Ray-Ban Meta Audio Ditches the Camera, Starting at $349, Ships October
Meta unveiled its first camera-free smart glasses, Ray-Ban Meta Audio, at Connect 2026, focusing on voice calls and Meta AI features. Pricing starts at $349, with shipping beginning October 13.
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.
Meta's "AI native" reorganization plan is stuck: the program code has increased by 220%, but only 36% more functions are available
Reuters reported that Meta's Project OT plan, which was originally scheduled to use AI to significantly replace employees and launch a second wave of layoffs, was stopped or suspended by Mark Zuckerberg due to technical progress failing to keep up with ambitions and internal employee backlash.
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.
No Deal, No Free Pass: Australia Passes New Law Forcing Meta, Google to Pay Up for News
Australia's parliament has passed a new law requiring tech companies with annual ad revenue over AU$275 million to pay a 2.75% tax on local revenue if they fail to strike deals with at least eight news outlets, replacing the old 2021 framework.
Meta Launches AI Mini-Game App Pocket, Built by the Same Team Behind the Gizmo App It Acquired and Shut Down
Meta's generative AI gaming platform Pocket has wrapped up testing in Brazil and officially launched in the US, letting users generate touch- and tilt-interactive "gizmos" from text prompts, with support for saving, sharing, and remixing.
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.
Your Phone Isn't Secretly Listening to You—But What It Collects Could Get You Prosecuted
TIDEZINE editors break down how app tracking really works: from device identifiers and sensors to your typing rhythm, every signal you give up builds a profile—one that law enforcement has already used to secure convictions.
Meta Files New Patent: Glasses That Don't Just Record You—They'll Know Your Name
From the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses mockingly dubbed "pervert glasses" to a patented system that can automatically tag faces and generate behavior logs, Meta's lenses are evolving from "seeing what's there" to "knowing who it is and what they did."
Meta Donates 15,000 AI Glasses to Ireland's Visually Impaired—Same Model Under Fire for Spy-Cam Concerns
Meta is giving away 15,000 pairs of Ray-Ban Meta glasses for free to Vision Ireland, enough to cover every adult member of the visually impaired services organization. But this same eyewear has recently come under fire after its recording light was found to be hackable and traces of facial recognition testing surfaced.
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.