IGTV, a video-focused app spun off of Facebook’s popular photo-sharing app Instagram, recommends offensive videos to young users, a report by Business Insider said Friday. Clips with apparent child exploitation and genital mutilation surfaced in the app’s “For You” and “Popular” sections for an anonymous account the publication registered as belonging to a 13-year old, according to …
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“Can we help?” asks Instagram if you search #opioid. On Wednesday, the Facebook-owned photo sharing app launched a feature to support people who may be struggling with substance abuse, drug addiction or serious mental health issues. When you search hashtags such as #opioid, #crack or #suicide, Instagram sends a pop-up message that refers you to more information about substance use, …
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It’s all about being transparent now for Instagram. The Facebook-owned photo app announced three new tools Tuesday. As well as enabling two-factor authentication via third-party apps, users can now see more information about other Instagram accounts through a feature called “About the Account.” Instagram A new verification request form found under settings will also let users apply for a blue …
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Now you can read books on Instagram. Just follow @nypl. The New York City Library on Wednesday started posting classic novels and short stories to its Instagram account using photo and video storytelling. The new initiative, Insta Novels, is meant to spark love and appreciation for reading that may lead to more visits to the library, according to a NYPL …
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What is happening in the mind of Elon Musk? It’s one of the great questions of our time, and now we have one less portal into the entrepreneur’s head space — his Instagram account appears to have gone up in a puff of smoke. It’s not clear when exactly Musk’s account was last active, but internet archive the Wayback Machine …
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For my high school graduation, my mom put together an album with photographs of me growing up in New Orleans and South Carolina. It had a leather-bound cover and black-matte pages. She attached the printed pictures to the paper with photo corners and hand-wrote captions about what was going on. With each turn of a page, I rediscovered photos and …
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is quickly disappearing from the internet, though some accesses to his site Infowars is still available on the web. After we inquired this afternoon about the Infowars company page, LinkedIn responded that it has removed the page from its platform. “We have removed the InfoWars company page for violating our terms of service. We value the …
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India’s government reportedly asked telecoms to figure out how to block messaging apps if they are misused. Telecom service providers, along with mobile and internet industry bodies, were asked to explore options for blocking Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram in a July letter from India’s department of telecommunication, according to Reuters. A department official told Reuters that it was looking …
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The day was dawning at popular Instagram spot Lago di Braies when a young man and his girlfriend broke into the boathouse, jumped into one of the waiting boats and paddled out across the mountain lake in Italy’s Dolomites range. It sounds so romantic. Waking at daybreak, stealing a boat, rowing out into the middle of the lake to watch …
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Facebook and its Instagram photo service remain popular places for neo-Nazis and white supremacists to sell merchandise championing an ethnostate, according to a report. Children’s T-shirts bearing slogans such as “White baby — the future of our race” and magazines supporting Nazi ideology are available on the social networks, HuffPost reported on Thursday. Facebook reportedly removed White Rex, a Russian-owned neo-Nazi brand, …
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