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According to the report, the exchange had previously approached the government on similar grounds in 2019, twice in 2020, and most recently in August 2024.  

Figures are showing that Instagram is growing faster than other parts of Meta's social networking world.

Install the Who Viewed Instagram Profile app on your phone. Open it and enter your Instagram username. Tap on the refresh button to see list of people who viewed your Instagram profile.

Most complaints are coming from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Russia and Ukraine. Most users report problems with the website, app and entering their accounts. In October, several Meta-owned services, including Instagram, were hit by a massive outage.

Creators will now stand a chance to earn up to $10,000 for posting short videos called "Reels". The bonus programme is being tested with a small number of creators. Instagram said that users should "expect them to fluctuate while we`re still getting started".

In the Everyone option, as the name suggests, everyone can see the last seen. In the ‘My Contacts’ section, only the contacts saved in the phone will be able to see your last seen. In the third ‘Nobody’ option, no one will be able to see when you were active on WhatsApp last.

The WhatsApp ‘undo’ feature is currently in the testing phase and the Facebook-owned messaging platform plans to roll the new feature. The photos or videos uploaded in the Status section automatically vanish after 24 hours of upload. WhatsApp is also testing several other new features to improve the experience of users on the messaging platform.

Instagram currently ranks the order of your feed by the most recent and shared posts from the people you follow. It also checks other "signals" like how likely you`ll engage with a post. It's unclear whether this `Favourites` feature will become an official feature at all.

Twitter was planning to start the testing of the labelling feature in July 2021. However, the microblogging platform has started the labelling a bit late. Twitter is also working on a label to memorialise people who have died and that label is scheduled to be available this year.

Vulnerability was rooted in WhatsApp's image filter function. CPR learned that switching between various filters on crafted GIF files caused WhatsApp to crash. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability would have required an attacker to apply specific image filters to a specially crafted image and send the resulting image.

Twitter said that the new safety feature has been rolled out to a small feedback group on iOS, Android, and Twitter.Com. The aim is to reduce disruptive interactions. Authors of Tweets found to be harmful or uninvited will be autoblocked,

Social media platform Snapchat has blocked access to Al Jazeera content in Saudi Arabia, the media reported on Monday.

Your personal social media account could possibly be invaded by taxman to identify those paying too less tax in order to save wastage of manpower in raids.

In order to combat fake news menace in Germany, social media major Facebook announced on Sunday various measures. It comes at a time when Europe's largest economy and most populous nation enters an election year.

Making privacy a debatable issue, a study has revealed that privacy controls on social media platforms such as Facebook depends on user.  

Ranveer Singh and Vaani Kapoor's 'Befikre' gets Twitter emoji!

Parents, be carefull before posting your kid's photo on social media as sharing with others about your child on digital platform may lead to unanticipated risks in future. 

Fear of facing a libel charge is a big headache for those who spend substantial time in expressing their opinions on various issues on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

FIR lodged against KRK for harassing female actors on Twitter

As per a recent study by Facebook, 70 percent gamers across the globe, including India choose smartphones as their primary gaming platform, followed by computers, tablets and game consoles.