Social media giant Facebook recently admitted to storing millions of Instagram users passwords as easily accessible plain text, making them easy to view for employees or others who accessed Facebook’s systems.
A Swedish journalist who writes for the newspaper Expressen was caught celebrating the tragic fire that engulfed the iconic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris earlier this week.
Facebook-owned social media platform Instagram announced on Tuesday it blocked the accounts of numerous Iranian officials, including commanders in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in compliance with U.S. sanctions.
A major exposé by technology magazine Wired has shed light on Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s deteriorating relationship with Facebook-owned Instagram and its co-founders.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, known for live-streaming herself on Instagram, said on Sunday that she has given up Facebook and is scaling back on all social media.
Instagram removed a cartoon posted by Babylon Bee founder Adam Ford for “hate speech,” Wednesday.
Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) sent a letter on Monday to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting it to take action on Facebook and Google’s potential anticompetitive behavior and violations of American privacy.
Facebook and Instagram have blacklisted political commentator Faith Goldy from their platforms, just one week after Goldy was also banned from Airbnb for her political views.
In a recent article, TechCrunch reports that Facebook’s removal of Infowars host Alex Jones from its platform underscores the many issues the company has with content moderation.
Rapper and producer Dr. Dre deleted a post bragging about his daughter’s acceptance to USC after critics highlighted his recent $70 million donation to the university.
Fundraising site GoFundMe has joined Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, YouTube, and Pinterest in banning anti-vaccination content.
Facebook-owned social network Instagram will blacklist anti-vaccine hashtags in an effort to crack down on “misinformation.”
Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), the chairman of the House Juduciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, on Tuesday, called for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether Facebook violated American antitrust laws.
Tech giant Facebook suffered a service outage yesterday which resulted in its Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp services all crashing.
There are 15 million less U.S. Facebook users today than in 2017, with those between the ages of 12 to 34 constituting the biggest drop in users, according to a new study.
A 26-year-0ld Instagram feminist spread menstrual blood on her face in an attempt to break the “stigma” around menstruation.
Facebook-owned social network Instagram is reportedly the most popular platform for child grooming in the U.K.
Facebook has banned British citizen journalist and street organiser Tommy Robinson from its platforms, including Instagram, in a move that comes days after he released a new documentary exposing what he claimed to be dishonest practise at establishment media giant BBC.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blased opponents of the Green New Deal: “We’re screwed on climate,” she said. “At this point, we don’t even have to prove it.”
A federal judge on Thursday issued a gag order on longtime political operative Roger Stone, ordering the Trump ally to refrain from making further public statements regarding his case.
Dozens of Instagram users reported that the platform censored them for liking posts from President Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr.
The suggestion is obvious, is it not? Stone’s got it coming, which means raping him would be a virtuous act, would be a just act that would earn the admiration of America’s political media elites…
Emojis are increasingly common in court cases, and the meanings behind these emojis are reportedly being argued during trials.
Instagram has deleted a post made by Donald Trump Jr. about the unfolding events surrounding the case of actor Jussie Smollett.
A Canadian “Instagram influencer” is facing criminal charges after a video showed her allegedly tossing a chair off of an apartment’s balcony 45 stories up from a busy street in downtown Toronto.
Instagram deleted an account on Wednesday publishing comic strips about the struggles of a gay Muslim boy in Indonesia after it sparked outrage among the country’s Islamic population.
In a press release, Thursday, Instagram announced it would start banning “graphic” self-harm pictures uploaded to the platform.
Facebook’s photo-sharing platform Instagram recently deleted a post of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Texas Bar registration form on which she states that she is an “American Indian.” The Platform called a photo of Warren’s registration “harassment or bullying.”
Adam Mosseri, the head of Facebook-owned Instagram, admitted in an article for the Telegraph, Monday, that Instagram has failed to protect its users from posts which promote self-harm and even suicide.
A viral egg account on Instagram, which broke the world record for the most likes on the platform last month, was created by advertisers, who chose the egg because it “has no gender, race or religion.”
