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Threads and Instagram users will no longer be able to opt out of being shown political content from people they do not follow, parent company Meta has announced. The head of the platforms Adam Mosseri said it followed Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg’s reorienting the company towards “free expression” – a move that saw it ditch fact checkers on Tuesday. Mr …

Meghan Markle has officially returned to Instagram after 5 years away from the social media platform.  The Duchess of Sussex launched her personal account on New Year’s Day with a video captured by her husband Prince Harry on a beach near their home in Montecito, California.  In the video, Markle, 43, is seen running barefoot toward the waves, her back to the camera. She stops to …

Users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have experienced difficulties accessing them due to a mass global outage. “Thanks for bearing with us! We’re 99% of the way there – just doing some last checks. We apologize to those who’ve been affected by the outage,” Meta, which owns the apps, said on X. Over 22,000 people reported issues with Facebook on …

Police are investigating the d@th of Japanese actress and singer Miho Nakayama after she was found unresponsive in the bathtub at her home in Tokyo. The 54-year-old, who was widely considered Japan’s most beautiful woman at the height of her career in the 1980s and 1990s, left a troubling post on Instagram just hours before her d@th. The post shows a work by French …

Instagram is testing a new feature which allows people to completely remove all the content being recommended to them. Its “reset” tool – which it says will be available globally “soon” – effectively cleanses a user’s feed of content suggested by the site’s algorithm, though Instagram says recommendations will “start to personalise again over time.” It comes as Instagram has …

In an exclusive interview with Pulse Nigeria, the seasoned filmmaker shared a thought-provoking perspective on the current state and future of filmmaking in Nollywood. John Njamah is a seasoned Nollywood actor, film producer, and film director. As an actor, he is popular for his role as Rabiu in the TV soap opera, Fuji House of Commotion.He has also starred in …

Instagram has revealed that it lowers the quality of older, less popular videos – reserving higher quality for more popular content. Adam Mosseri, head of the Meta-owned social media platform said on Sunday “we bias to higher quality… for creators who drive more views”. He said Instagram reduces the quality of videos that have not been watched for a long …

Getty Images The NSPCC said the moves by Instagram were a “step in the right direction”, but wanted preventative measures to be rolled out on WhatsApp too Instagram will stop people from being able to screenshot or screen-record images and videos intended to be viewed once, as part of “ongoing efforts” to prevent sextortion on the platform. Its parent company …

An Instagram model accused of making a false r@pe claim against AC Milan defender Theo Hernandez will go on trial.   According to Mail Online, model Luisa Kremleva will go on trial later this month at a Costa del Sol court. Public prosecutors want her to receive a two-year prison sentence and a £12,000 fine if convicted. Kremleva, thought to have dual …