Facebook, Instagram back up after more than half a million users locked out of accounts
At 10:28 a.m., there were 566,750 reported outages. As of 11:30 a.m., Facebook and Instagram were back up and running.
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Teens’ social media drops slightly; YouTube dominates, survey finds
Teen usage of social media hasn’t dropped much, despite rising concerns about its effects on the mental health of adolescents, a survey from the Pew Research Institute found.
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MacRumors: Delete your Threads profile and stay on Instagram – Here’s how
When Meta launched Threads in July, one of the complaints users had about the platform was that it was impossible to delete your Threads profile without also deleting your Instagram account. Here’s a new option.
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Meta whistleblower: Execs ignored the damage Instagram does to teens
Meta’s top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram, a company whistleblower told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday.
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War, your kids & social media: How you can block graphic posts on phones
Disabling an app or implementing restrictions, such as filtering out certain words and phrases, on young users’ phones may be sound like a daunting process. But platforms and mobile operating systems offer safeguards that could go along way in protecting a child’s mental health.
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Facebook and Instagram users in Europe could get ad-free subscription option, WSJ reports
Meta plans to give Facebook and Instagram users in Europe the option of paying for ad-free versions of the social media platforms as a way to comply with the continent’s strict data privacy rules, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
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Zuckerberg concealed his kids’ faces on Instagram – what should you do?
Mark Zuckerberg’s post was promptly criticized by some who saw the decision to obscure the faces as a reflection of his privacy concerns for sharing pictures of his children online, despite his creating massive platforms that allow millions of other parents to do just that.
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Meta guardrails: More safeguards, monitoring tools for teens launch across social platforms
Meta is adding new safeguards and monitoring tools for teens across its social platforms: parental controls on Messenger, suggestions for teens to step away from Facebook after 20 minutes, and nudges urging young night-owl Instagrammers to stop scrolling. Here’s a look.
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