At the time, people felt like 2016 was cursed — but at least we did not yet have a word for “doomscrolling.”
A couple of weeks ago, Adam Mosseri posted to his grid. In a series of messages, Instagram’s top exec laid out his concerns for the platform in the coming year, largely around AI. The post was equal parts Working Through It, a sounding of alarms, and a rallying cry to creators who use the platform: […]
Instagram has rolled out Your Algorithm, a new feature that lets users control the kind of content they see on Reels by adding or removing topics, giving people more say over what shows up in their feed.
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Instagram boss Adam Mosseri is closing out 2025 with a 20-images-deep dive into what a new era of “infinite synthetic content” means as it all becomes harder and harder to distinguish from reality, and the old, more personal Instagram feed that he says has been “dead” for years. Last year, The Verge’s Sarah Jeong wrote […]
A new New York law mandates mental health warning labels on addictive social media features, allowing state enforcement and reflecting growing global concern over youth online safety.
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Love them or hate them, more than half of the world’s population interacts with algorithmic recommendations in some way every day. Algorithmic recommendations play an integral role in how users discover new content across platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. It can be nice to be fed a stream of fresh posts, pictures, and […]