Meta settles its alleged social media harm case for $18B — and agrees to massive changes that may be almost impossible to enforce

Meta just settled the huge US multi-state case against it, alleging the social media giant’s products harm teens. It’s paying $18B— but are the promised product changes enough to truly protect teens?

All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens
All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens

Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with the social media platforms, as well as restrict their use during certain times. […]

Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states

One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be disabled with parental permission.

Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ trims your Reels clips for you
Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ trims your Reels clips for you

Instagram is launching a new Reels-editing feature that automatically trims your video clips to focus on the highlights. The feature, called First Draft, is rolling out to Instagram’s iPhone app and provides a “starting point” that you can build upon with other edits, according to an announcement on Tuesday. An example shared by Instagram shows […]

Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money
Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money

Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam “Kold” Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what’s possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield’s recently added Seedance 2.5 functionality and pitch these technologies as the future of video production. In response to these videos, […]

Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’
Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’

Robin Williams’ children are taking over their father’s Instagram account after his daughter spoke out against the use of his AI likeness, as reported earlier by The Wrap. In a post on Tuesday, Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams write that they want the late actor’s Instagram profile to be a “safe, trusted place where the […]

Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam
Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam

Instagram’s wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn’t look like the old Instagram wordmark. It doesn’t even look like it spells Instagram anymore. And we cannot figure out why Instagram decided to do this. On this episode of […]

Instagram introduces a redesigned wordmark

The social media giant says it was time for a sharper and more modern look after a decade.

This is Instagram’s new logo
This is Instagram’s new logo

Instagram has unveiled a new wordmark, moving away from the recognizable cursive typeface it’s used over the last decade. The updated wordmark is a strange mix of half-cursive half-print that’s somehow less legible than its predecessor. Like, that totally says “Instagzam,” right? “The wordmark at the top of the app hasn’t changed in 10 years, […]

Social media platforms still facing thousands of user addiction lawsuits after failed appeals

Platforms like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google are facing a long road of litigation.