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Instagram and Facebook are adding new features that are meant to promote the wellbeing and mental health of teen users in the wake of whistleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony before the U.S. Congress last week. In an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Facebook Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg said Instagram will introduce a "take a break" feature that will push teens to take some time off of the social media network. Clegg also said that Facebook wil

The popular forum website Reddit suffered another global outage on Thursday, 7 October, with users from Australia, Canada, U.S., and the U.K. all reporting connectivity issues. According to Newsweek, the disruption of the website was confirmed by Down Detector, an online platform that checks the status of websites and services in real-time. There was a spike in reports of Reddit being down at around 10 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday. Reddit Status, a dedicated Twitter account

Update: Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer of Facebook has made an apology on Facebook for the nearly 6 hours outages on WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram in most parts of the world. WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram has been down in most parts of the world, affecting tens of millions of users across the social and communication platforms. A quick check on Facebook's website has shown that the platform is down. Downdetector.com, an outage tracking website has shown report

A former Facebook employee, in an appearance on the newsmagazine show 60 Minutes on Sunday, 3 October, said that the social media company is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, and misinformation. "It’s paying for its profits with our safety," said Frances Haugen, who revealed her identity as the whistleblower who leaked Facebook’s internal research documents to the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal’s investigation last month showed how

Amid criticism on its plan to make an Instagram app for users under the age of 13, Facebook will pause Instagram Kids to talk to parents, experts and policymakers about the value and need for the project as well as listen to their concerns. "While we stand by the need to develop this experience, we've decided to pause this project. This will give us time to work with parents, experts, policymakers and regulators, to listen to their concerns, and to demonstrate the value and i

If you've long been waiting to add Music stickers to your Facebook and Instagram Stories, then you're in luck because you can now use them on these two apps. The stickers are a part of the Music feature that has been rolled out in Singapore. The feature includes the option for users to add music to their Facebook profile and share Soundmojis on Messenger. To add music to your Facebook Story, you first need to click on the "Create Story" option at the top of your News Feed. Th

Starting 30 August 2021, Instagram will say goodbye to the swipe up feature and hello to link stickers. These are clickable stickers that people can place on their IG stories to direct viewers to an external website. The social media platform said that it will retire the swipe up feature to streamline how stories are created and provide more “creative control” to users, as they can edit the stickers but not the swipe up gesture. In June 2021, Instagram began testing the link