Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, is reportedly hiring four additional artificial intelligence researchers from OpenAI, according to a Saturday report by The Information. The latest recruits—Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren—will join Meta's AI division as the company expands its artificial intelligence capabilities.
Meta executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram head Adam Mosseri, openly acknowledged TikTok's dominance over Facebook and Instagram in key areas of social media engagement, during discussions dated February 2022, filed as part of the US Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) antitrust lawsuit against Meta, according to a recent report by TechCrunch.
Instagram has announced a new video editing app called Edits, aimed at creators who produce videos on their phones. The app, unveiled by Instagram head Adam Mosseri in a video on Instagram, is positioned as a competitor to CapCut, the video editor app owned by TikTok's parent company ByteDance.
Instagram has recently extended the maximum length of its Reels feature to three minutes, doubling the previous limit of 90 seconds, according to a recent announcement by Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram.
Meta’s social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, experienced significant outages on Wednesday night, affecting thousands of users globally.
With how addictive social media is, the thought of putting your device down seems like a nightmare. Why get any work done when you can scroll and watch eye-catching reels instead?
Facebook has recently announced to shift its focus to "views" as the primary metric for measuring content performance, aligning its approach with Instagram’s existing system.
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that his government will introduce legislation to prevent users under 16 from accessing social media platforms, citing the risks of online harm.
Improvements in AI-driven feeds and video recommendations have led to an 8% rise in time spent on Facebook and a 6% increase on Instagram this year, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the company's latest quarterly earnings report.
Madonna has been blocked from Instagram Live. According to the social media site, the pop icon apparently violated community guidelines when she posted nude photos of herself on the platform.
Being “that” girl is a watered-down version of the the not-like-other-girls trope.
The government’s draft regulation for digital, social media and OTT platforms will be a threat to freedom of speech and curb people’s basic rights, experts said today.
Russian tech entrepreneurs are reportedly set to launch the Russian version of Instagram, Rossgram. This announcement follows the nationwide Instagram ban on Russia earlier this week.
A career in social media is not unheard of. However, it might still sound somewhat new to many.
From finding the right props to setting up a shoot, the many ways of curating an interesting Instagram profile can be easier than it appears to be.
The trend is very reminiscent of old school chain mails.
You walk into a room and come across stacks and stacks of books neatly arranged on shelves lining the walls, a couple of pristine white bedsheets, an intricate marble backdrop, and the smell of half a dozen candles blending together as your eyes are drawn to the centre of attention: glimmering, gold-foiled book covers. This is the commonly seen, romanticised setup for a book blogger’s photoshoot. Unfortunately, the real, behind-the-scenes process of blogging in Bangladesh can be quite different.
The impossible has happened. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp et al — social media, as we know it, was down for some six hours. And, we survived!
If you are fairly active on Facebook, you might have noticed a new trend that goes by #Howmuchyouvechangedchallenge or 2011 vs 2021. The rules are very simple. You open your profile pics, choose your first solo profile pic, choose your last solo profile pic and post them side by side so everyone can see how much you have changed over the years.
