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Meta plans to launch an AI tool on Instagram called the ‘adult classifier’ to verify users' ages by analysing their profiles and interactions. If the tool suspects a user is under 18, they will be switched to a more restrictive version of the app, even if they claim to be older.

Meta Spark will shut down on January 14, 2025, ending its platform for third-party AR creation and removal of user-generated AR content from Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger. Meta is shifting its focus to AI and the metaverse, leaving AR developers to find new platforms like Snapchat's Lens Studio or Unity.

Scammers hacked the official McDonald’s Instagram account to promote a sham memecoin based on the fast food giant’s mascot Grimace.

This will also apply to end-to-end encrypted messages, because the processing is done on device, according to Meta.

Facebook and Instagram may soon promote spot ETF ads, signaling a major shift in crypto acceptance and digital asset marketing strategies.

Instagram's Backdrop feature, using AI, reinvents photo backgrounds, enhancing user creativity.

Users will be able to transfer money without any transaction fees.

On November 16th, social media giant Meta introduced its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models, 'Emu Video' and 'Emu Edit'.

Decision seen as “shortsighted” by at least one artist who participated in the program.

After just a year of supporting the sharing of digital collectibles on its Instagram platform, Meta is pausing the project. Meta Commerce and Fintech lead Stephane Kasriel announced the change on Twitter. The tech and social media giant is winding down its digital collectibles initiative “to focus on other ways to support creators, people, and businesses,” Kasriel wrote. Last year, Meta made a big push into digital collectibles after Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Instagram’s parent company Meta, annou...