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Russia removes WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram from a Roskomnadzor-run online directory, essentially blocking them in the country without workarounds (www.ft.com)
2026-2-12 Russia Facebook Instagram WhatsApp

Tech Oversight Project: ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial, Meta paid for 3,500+ ads on CNN, Fox, and others to promote Instagram's Teen Accounts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-11 Instagram

Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after a WSJ story about Instagram and teen mental health, noting Apple faces less scrutiny (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-6 Apple Instagram Zuckerberg

Overrun Spanish island 'Instagram' beach will be sealed off by German millionaire owner because they're fed-up having 4,000 selfie-hunters swarm the tiny patch of sand daily (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-2-4 Germany Instagram Spain

Researcher reveals evidence of private Instagram profiles leaking photos (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-1 Instagram

Canada says it is talking to Meta to restore news to Facebook and Instagram as the Online News Act is put on the table as part of trade negotiations with the US (www.theglobeandmail.com)
2026-1-29 Facebook Instagram Canada

Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp To Test Premium Subscriptions (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Facebook Instagram WhatsApp

The EU Commission says WhatsApp's Channels fall under the DSA's Very Large Online Platform rules, joining Instagram and Facebook, requiring it to address risks (www.euractiv.com)
2026-1-27 Facebook Instagram WhatsApp

The US FTC plans to appeal to revive its case accusing Meta of bolstering an illegal monopoly by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp; Meta won the case in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21 Instagram WhatsApp

Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50%+ of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-21 Instagram Sensor

The UK Gambling Commission says Meta is letting illegal gambling sites advertise on Facebook and Instagram, calling its ad library a “window into criminality” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 Facebook Instagram

Hacker admits to leaking stolen Supreme Court data on Instagram (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-20 Instagram Hacker

Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-19 Android IOS Instagram

Supreme Court Hacker Posted Stolen Government Data On Instagram (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 Instagram Hacker

Meta says it shut down nearly 550K accounts in Australia to comply with its under-16 social media ban, including 330K Instagram and 173K Facebook accounts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-12 Australia Facebook Instagram Ban

Instagram denies breach amid claims of 17 million account data leak (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-12 Instagram

Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-12 Instagram

Personal Info on 17.5 Million Users May Have Leaked to Dark Web After 2024 Instagram Breach (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-12 Instagram Darknet

Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses (www.engadget.com)
2026-1-11 Instagram

How Meta's Reels became a hit, with a $50B+ annual run rate; Sensor Tower: users spend 27 minutes/day on Instagram Reels, 21 on YouTube Shorts, and 44 on TikTok (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-2 YouTube Instagram Sensor

You Can't Trust Your Eyes To Tell You What's Real Anymore, Says Instagram Head (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-2 Instagram

Adam Mosseri details trends shaping Instagram and says it'll be more practical to authenticate real media than label AI, as AI gets better at imitating reality (www.engadget.com)
2026-1-1 AI Instagram

Internal documents: Instagram execs have waged an aggressive campaign to win back teens, boosting teen-friendly influencers, adjusting its algorithm, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-26 Instagram Algorithm

Adam Mosseri says “maybe we'll need” premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (www.semafor.com)
2025-12-22 Instagram Algorithm

A UK family and a US family sue Meta for the alleged wrongful deaths of their teenage sons, who died by suicide after falling victim to sextortion on Instagram (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-12-18 Instagram

Instagram unveils its first TV app, initially available on Amazon's Fire TV as a test with plans to expand to other TV platforms (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 Amazon Instagram

ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US iOS App Store, up from No. 4 in 2024, followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Instagram (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-11 IOS Google Instagram WhatsApp

Instagram launches Your Algorithm, which shows users an AI analysis of their activity to let them customize the topics shaping their Reels recommendations (www.wired.com)
2025-12-11 AI Instagram Algorithm

Sources: this fall, Alexandr Wang told people that he disagreed with top Meta execs like Chris Cox and Andrew Bosworth, including on using Instagram data for AI (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-10 AI Instagram

Instagram appears to be generating often misleading SEO-style headlines and long descriptions for users' Instagram posts, appearing in Google Search results (www.404media.co)
2025-12-10 Google Instagram

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