Lawmakers are taking action on Facebook after a recent report revealed that the social media company is aware that its Instagram platform can be harmful to young girls’ mental health. In a joint statement released Tuesday, Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said they are launching a bipartisan investigation into Facebook’s knowledge of…
Facebook Faces Senate Probe After Report Reveals Instagram’s Harmful Effects on Teenage Girls
Facebook: Deletion of Marine Mother’s Account a Mistake
August 31, 2021
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The deletion of an Instagram account belonging to a mother whose Marine son was killed in Afghanistan last week was a mistake, parent company Facebook said Tuesday. Shana Chappell raised an alarm on Facebook on Monday after she said her account was removed. Chappell said she believed the deletion was “because [I] gained so many…
Instagram to Require Users to Share Their Birthdays
Instagram will begin requiring users to confirm their birthdays as part of an effort to create new safety features for young people, the Facebook Inc-owned social media app said Monday. Instagram has explored building a version of its app for children under the age of 13, prompting lawmakers to urge Facebook to drop the plans,…
Instagram Fuels 70 Percent Rise in Online Grooming of Children: UK Charity
Instagram was the most commonly used app by offenders for sexual communication with a child in the past year, a UK children’s charity has revealed. Online grooming crimes recorded by UK police have jumped by nearly 70 percent since 2018, new figures from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) show….
Nipsey Hussle ‘Dis’ Eyed as Possible Motive in Aspiring Rapper’s Murder Captured on Instagram Live: Police
By Nancy Dillon From New York Daily News An aspiring southern California rapper shot to death during an Instagram Live last week may have been targeted due to an alleged “dis” against the late rapper Nipsey Hussle, a police official said Tuesday. Zerail Rivera, who went by the name Indian Red Boy, was murdered in…
Facebook Says Services Restored After Outage
Facebook said it has resolved a technical issue that caused some users trouble accessing Facebook, Messenger, Workplace and Instagram on Saturday. “We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience,” a spokesperson told Reuters. Facebook, Instagram and Messenger were down for thousands of users on…
States Urge Facebook to Abandon Plan for Children’s Instagram
A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general is urging Facebook to abandon its plans to create a platform for children under the age of 13. The attorneys general sent a letter to Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg arguing that the use of social media can be detrimental to children and that the company had previously failed to…
Facebook Urged by State AGs to Abandon Plan for Children’s Instagram
A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general is urging Facebook to abandon its plans to create a platform for children under the age of 13. The group sent a letter to Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg arguing that the use of social media can be detrimental to children and that the company had previously failed to protect…
Huntington Beach City Council Imposes Social Media Guidelines
May 5, 2021
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Huntington Beach city council unanimously passed a policy that prohibits elected officials from blocking or deleting public comments on social media sites. The city adopted the ordinance during a May 3 vote. “This policy is the bare minimum,” Mayor Kim Carr said during the council meeting. “If you’re an elected official … allow that content to be accessible to anybody who…
Facebook Extends Ban on Federal MP Craig Kelly to Instagram
April 28, 2021
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Instagram, owned by Facebook, has banned Federal MP Craig Kelly only a day after the company banned the member of parliament on Facebook. Prior to Kelly’s Instagram ban, the politician announced his plan to propose a Bill that would seek to rein in the power of Big Tech companies like Facebook. The Bill would be based…
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