Following the inauguration, many people went on social media to find that they were following the new president.
The lefty account holders were left dumbfounded when posts from the country’s newly sworn-in leaders appeared on their feeds despite never hitting follow for either Trump or Vance.
Instagram announced a new video editing app, called Edits, on the same day that rival video service TikTok briefly went dark in response to a federal ban. X also touted the launch of a dedicated video tab in its mobile app.
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, X, YouTube, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Dailymotion, Jeuxvideo.com, Rakuten Viber, and Microsoft-hosted consumer services have all signed the “Code
Belichick, now readying for his first season as UNC’s football coach, has shared 12 posts since his Instagram debut, including a snap from the fall featuring his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson. The legendary Patriots coach has 445,000 Instagram followers and counting.
As TikTok temporarily shut down due to a federal ban, Instagram announced a new video editing app, edits, launching in February. The app offers tools for editing, overlays, and green screens, aiming to attract creators seeking alternatives. X (formerly Twitter) also introduced a video-focused feature to enhance its platform’s video capabilities.
Many Instagram and Facebook users say they are confused about why they are seeing posts from the president and vice president in their feeds. Here’s what to know.
X has started expanding its dedicated vertical video feed to users outside the U.S., TechCrunch has exclusively learned and confirmed with the company.
Andy Stone, the communications director of Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that people were not made to follow the new heads of the country.
This deeply craven and dangerous reversal, ostensibly to reduce “censorship” from Meta platforms, will make Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp even more unsafe for LGBTQ+ users. That’s why, after 13 years on Instagram, amassing 80,000 followers, and having monetarily benefited from being an influencer, I am finally leaving Instagram.
The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on
Even as platforms like Instagram and X devolve faster and further into cesspools of hate speech and targeted harassment, I’ve come up with a range of excuses to keep on using them. While some of these are vaguely valid (“as a culture writer,