On Wednesday, Instagram announced new features intended to provide a better experience for people with vision impairments. Instagram is introducing automatic alternative text, which lets you hear descriptions of pictures when using Instagram with a screen reader. The automatic alternative text uses object recognition tech to generate a list of things that may appear in …
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Dolce & Gabbana is in hot soup. The Italian fashion house “postponed” its Shanghai runway show to an unspecified date and found itself delisted from Chinese shopping platforms following controversies this week, Bloomberg reported. D&G published three promotional clips Chinese internet users found racist to its social media accounts including China’s Twitter-like service Weibo this week to help promote the Great …
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Instagram is looking to change up profile pages. The Facebook-owned company said on Wednesday that you might see features rearranged on your profile page in the coming weeks. Icons, buttons and tabs may change, though content on your profile grid won’t change. This comes as Instagram tests different changes to improve user profiles “in phases and different combinations,” Instagram said in a …
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Facebook and Instagram were down for hours for some users on Tuesday, including in the US, a little more than a week after the world’s largest social network said a “routine test” caused the site to go offline. This time, the tech firm said that “a server configuration caused intermittent problems across all apps globally.” “We are back to 100% …
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Instagram influencers can say goodbye to fake fans. Instagram on Monday said it’ll begin removing fake likes, follows and comments from accounts that use third-party apps to boost their popularity on the platform. The Facebook-owned photo app will use machine learning technology to help identify accounts that boost their pages in such ways and remove the “inauthentic activity,” according to …
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With the holiday shopping season going into overdrive, Instagram has rolled out new ways to shop on its platform. The move comes after the company expanded Shopping on Instagram with the introduction of product stickers in Stories in September. Instagram is focusing on discovering new products, allowing you to shop by your favorite brands and saving wish-list items. Here’s a quick …
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Facebook launched on Friday a new short-form video app called Lasso that lets users make and share videos with filters and special effects. The app includes video-editing tools, and helps users add music and text. Users can also follow creators, browse videos and find popular hashtags. Lasso’s features are similar to those of TikTok, another short-video platform. Bytedance Technology, a …
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The long-awaited Unsend feature will hit Facebook Messenger soon. The feature will give you a 10-minute time limit to take back what you said, the social network revealed in the release notes for Version 191.0 of the iOS app. “Coming soon: Remove a message from a chat thread after it’s been sent. If you accidentally send the wrong photo, incorrect …
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Instagram is reportedly prototyping School Stories that only allow a particular school’s students to partake. The code for these Stories, which was discovered by security researcher Jane Manchun Wong and previously reported by TechCrunch, suggests that it’ll be closely moderated to avoid bullying and inappropriate behavior. “School stories are manually reviewed to make sure the community is safe,” it notes. …
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Facebook is banning individual accounts, pages and groups linked to far-right extremists the Proud Boys. People started reporting the takedown on Twitter on Tuesday, according to Business Insider, in the wake of Proud Boys members’ arrests following a brawl on Manhattan’s Upper East Side earlier this month. The group and its founder Gavin McInnes were removed from Facebook and Instagram, …
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