Facebook and Instagram’s ‘pay or consent’ ad model violates the DMA, says the EU
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💻 The EU has formally charged Meta with violations of its Digital Markets Act (DMA), marking its second such charge in as many weeks.

The European Commission writes in a preliminary ruling that the "pay or consent" advertising model that launched last year for Facebook and Instagram users runs afoul of Article 5(2) of the DMA by not giving users a third option that uses less data for ad targeting but is still free to use.

💻 Regulators found in their investigation that Meta gives users a "binary choice" that forces them to either choose to pay a monthly subscription fee to get the ad-free version of Facebook and Instagram or consent to the ad-supported version. Where Meta runs afoul of its rules, it says, is by not letting users opt for a free version that

"uses less of their personal data but is otherwise equivalent to the
'personalised ads' based service" and by not allowing them to "exercise their right to freely consent to the combination of their personal data."
"Our preliminary view is that Meta's advertising model fails to comply with the Digital Markets Act," wrote Margrethe Vestager, who leads the region's competition policy. "And we want to empower citizens to be able to take control over their own data and choose a less personalised ads experience."

💻 The commission explains the part of the DMA it believes Meta has violated:

Under Article 5(2) of the DMA, gatekeepers must seek users' consent for combining their personal data between designated core platform services and other services, and if a user refuses such consent, they should have access to a less personalised but equivalent alternative. Gatekeepers cannot make use of the service or certain functionalities conditional on users'
consent. "Subscription for no ads follows the direction of the highest court in Europe and complies with the DMA," Meta spokesperson Matthew Pollard told The Verge in an email. "We look forward to further constructive dialogue with the European Commission to bring this investigation to a close."

💻 The commission says that it has informed Meta of its charges and has the opportunity to respond to its findings. If Meta is ultimately found to be in violation when the investigation concludes next year, the EU could fine it as much as 10 percent of its total worldwide revenue, which, for Meta, could be as much as $13.4 billion based on its results for 2023.

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🚨TikTok is getting closer to launching an Instagram rival
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⚡️ TikTok is planning to release a new photo-sharing app that could take on Instagram. In a notification sent to users, TikTok says it's launching "a new app for photo posts" called TikTok Notes, as reported earlier by TechCrunch.

⚡️ The notification says it will share "existing and future public TikTok photo posts" to TikTok Notes while also giving users the ability to opt out. A new photo.tiktok.com URL (archived version) spotted by TechCrunch also briefly appeared online with a prompt to open a post in the TikTok Notes app.

⚡️ Judging by the image included on the site, it looks like you'll be able to write a caption alongside your photo, too. In a statement to TechCrunch,

TikTok says it's "exploring ways to empower our community to create and share their creativity with photos and text in a dedicated space for those formats"

but didn't say when it plans to release the app. The Verge reached out to TikTok with a request for more information but didn't immediately hear back. We first heard about the possibility of a TikTok photo-sharing app last month, when TheSpAndroid dug up code within the app that suggested it was working on an app called TikTok Photos.

⚡️ But now, it looks like that app is getting closer to an official launch — and it could be a serious competitor to Instagram. TikTok Notes will likely come prepopulated with all of the photos TikTok users have already shared (given that most users opt in), which will save it from having to draw in an initial user base.

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♨️ Instagram makes more money from ads than YouTube does, and it has for years
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🔵Meta's court filing in an FTC case shows that in 2021 Instagram's ad revenue topped $32 billion, compared to $28.8 billion for YouTube. In a motion Meta filed on Friday to try and get the FTC's monopoly claims dismissed, it includes details of how much advertising revenue Instagram brought in over the last few years.

🔵At $32.4 billion for 2021 alone, that's even more than YouTube, which pulled in $28.8 billion in the same year. Business Insider previously pointed out the lead it has over Google's video unit, and mentions that YouTube gives up 55 percent of each advertising dollar it makes to content owners who upload videos while Instagram coughs up a lot less.

🔵The gap is also there even if you look further back. In 2020 and 2019, Meta lists Instagram's ad revenue as $22 and $17.9 billion, respectively, while YouTube's ad revenue is listed in its annual report (PDF) as $19.7 and $15.1 billion for the same years.

🔵According to Bloomberg, the figures show the share of Meta's revenue that comes from Instagram has jumped from 26 percent in 2020 to almost 30 percent in the first six months of 2022. The figures from the filing give more insight than Meta's quarterly earnings reports, which don't break out Instagram, but now we have a much clearer idea about how much Adam Mosseri's section means to Meta.

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⭐ Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses will post Instagram stories for you
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✅ Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses can now post Instagram stories directly to your Instagram account without the need for you to bring out a phone. The feature is one of several updates the company is now starting to roll out to the glasses, including support for Amazon Music and the meditation app Calm.

✅ The Instagram support will allow users to prompt the glasses to post to the app before or after taking a picture. They can say, "Hey Meta, share my last photo to Instagram" after taking a photo or tell it to "post a photo to Instagram" before taking a new picture.

✅ Meta also worked with the meditation app Calm to let people do guided meditation on the go and access mindfulness exercises on the glasses. Calm will offer a free three-month subscription to Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses users to test it out.
The glasses are getting the ability to stream Amazon Music, too. By saying, "Hey Meta, play Amazon Music," the glasses will play a recommended playlist curated for users. Changing volume or pausing music can be done through touch or voice controls without pulling out a phone. The glasses previously had support for Spotify and added Apple Music last month.Meta says the new features will roll out "gradually."

✅ In April, Meta added multimodal Al capabilities to the Ray-Ban smart glasses, where glasses wearers can take a photo and have Meta's Al give more context. It can read signs in different languages, write Instagram captions, and identify landmarks.

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🎯 Instagram’s co-founder is Anthropic’s new chief product officer
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✅ After a few years working on Artifact, Mike Krieger has a new AI project to work on.Krieger will oversee all of Anthropic’s product efforts going forward.

✅ It’s an important moment for the company to push hard on product, too: It recently released the Claude app for iOS, long after a bunch of its competitors were available on mobile, and just announced support for use in Spanish, French, Italian, and German.

✅ Anthropic, which was founded by ex-OpenAI employees, has been seemingly primarily focused on building out its core technology for the last few years but seems to understand that it needs to turn all that tech into products — and there’s no time to waste.

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⁉️Instagram is sticking to short videos, says Adam Mosseri
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☁️ Instagram isn't going to focus on longform video because it might "undermine" the platform's "core identity to connect people with friends," Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says in a video. Yes, you can technically post Instagram videos to your feed that are as long as one hour, and yes, Instagram did try to push for longer videos with IGTV before shutting the app down! But now, shortform is where it's at, Mosseri argues.

☁️ Mosseri says that Instagram's two main jobs are to help you connect with friends and to help you explore interests "usually through shortform video." He says that those two jobs are "symbiotic" because you might send a video that you like to a friend who might also like it.

☁️ On the other hand, longform videos (think videos that are longer than 10 minutes or feel more like TV shows) are "less symbiotic" with Instagram's two jobs because they mean

"you see less content from friends, you interact with your friends less, and you're actually less likely to send that content or that video to a friend,"

Mosseri says. Because of that, Instagram won't go after the format. (TikTok, on the other hand, is investing more into longer videos.)

☁️ Here's a full transcript of Mosseri's remarks, which I've slightly edited for clarity:

A creator asked me recently: "are we going to do longform video on Instagram?" The answer is no and I wanted to explain why. We do a number of different things on Instagram but at the heart of it there are really two jobs. One: connecting you with friends. Two: helping you explore your interests, usually through shortfrom video. It turns out that those two things are symbiotic. You see an amazing video that makes you laugh out loud from a comedian makes you laugh out loud from a comedian doing a bit, and you send it to someone who you know is going to laugh just as loud as you did. Or for me, I see a highlight of an amazing soccer goal or trick, and I send it to someone who I know loves soccer as much as I do. So these things are about connecting with friends over your interests. It turns out longfrom video is less symbiotic with these other jobs. If you watch a 10- or 20-minute video, you see less content from friends, you interact with your friends less, and you're actually less likely to send that content or that video to a friend. So we're not going to go after that business because it's part of our core identity to connect people with friends and we don't want to undermine that by going after longform video. We understand shortform video doesn't always do that, but it can. We try and prioritize shortfrom video that does. So let me know down below the comments what you think. I'm sure there are going to be a lot of hot takes on this one. Peace.

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🆕 Instagram is starting to let some creators make AI versions of themselves
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➡️ Instagram's new "AI Studio" will let creators make Al chatbot versions of themselves, and Meta is starting to roll it out as an "early test" in the US, CEO Mark Zukerberg announced on his broadcast channel on Thursday.

As part of the test, "you might start seeing Als from your favorite creators and interest-based Als in the coming weeks on Instagram," according to Zukerberg. "These will primarily show up in messaging for now, and will be clearly labeled as AI."

➡️ Zuckerberg shared a few videos of
conversations with creator-made AI chatbots as examples. From a creator's Instagram, you can tap a "Message" button to kick off a conversation.

A notice at the top says that the messages are generated by Al and "some may be inaccurate or inappropriate." (Let's hope Meta's systems can prevent these creator-made Als from saying something terrible.)

➡️ Meta also includes "Al" in front of the creator's name and, at least for now, a "beta" tag after the person's name.

"We've been working closely with creators to build these so they're helpful in answering the questions they get from their followers and can chat with people in a way that's useful and fun," Zuckerberg says.

"It's early days and the first beta version of these Als so we'll keep working on improving them, and make them available to more people soon." In a new interview, Zuckerberg talked more about the company's Al strategy. He says,

"We think people want to interact with lots of different people and businesses and there need to be a lot of different Als that get created to reflect people's different interests."

➡️ Meta wants to let creators and eventually small businesses "create an Al for themselves" to interact with their communities and customers.

"We think that's going to create a much more compelling experience and just be more dynamic and useful than just having a single thing that people use."

He also says Meta will let people make Al characters that aren't necessarily representations of themselves.

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🚨 An Instagram-like feature is coming to Google Photos!
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⚡️ Google Photos, which will allow Android users to back up to iCloud Photos as of next week, is working on another important innovation: Accordingly, a brand new feature similar to Instagram Stories will be integrated into the new versions of the application. In this way, you will be able to share your favorite photos with your friends for a short time, just like on Instagram.

⚡️ Google Photos, which is already equipped with many artificial intelligence features, is now focusing on Instagram’s Stories feature. With the artificial intelligence model, you can fix photos with a single click, fix blurry photos and give various effects, the application will come with a feature that allows you to share photos in a period you specify, like Instagram Stories.This new feature, called My Week by Google, was noticed while tinkering with the codes of the new versions.

⚡️ The feature, which is initially thought to be used to instantly identify photos shared in the past with artificial intelligence, will actually offer a sharing service similar to Stories. Users will be able to share a selection of photos with any friends they want, and will be able to like posts shared by other friends. Again, like on Instagram, they will be able to send comments.

⚡️ Here are the changes regarding private photos… It is currently unclear when this feature will be available to users. However, just like on Instagram, you will be able to select the photos you want, apply the sounds and effects you want, and share by clicking on the ‘+’ button at the top left of the application.

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💣YouTube Shorts is integrating Instagram’s “Add to you” feature!
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🔄 YouTube Shorts continues to compete with Instagram Reels and TikTok. The company, which announced its new feature today, seems to be adding the “Add to you” feature we’ve seen on Instagram for a few years to Shorts. Here’s YouTube’s new feature…

🔄 As you know, Instagram added the “Add to you” feature to its application in 2021. This feature, which allows users to share videos or photos under a certain topic, was very popular due to Instagram’s structure. Now YouTube is preparing to add this feature to its application.

🔄 The company, which plans to implement the feature mentioned for YouTube Shorts, will now allow you to add videos under the specified topic. However, it is debatable how logical it would be for this feature to be available on YouTube. Likewise, since Instagram is a social media platform, users share photos and videos in their stories. However, it seems that it will be a bit difficult to get the same kind of interaction on a video sharing platform.

🔄 In addition to the “add your own” feature, the company also announced the subtitle feature for YouTube Shorts, stating that now automatically generated subtitles can be easily added to videos and also edited. In other words, you will be able to adjust the font or color of the subtitle as you wish. For now, the company will only be making these features available on the Android version, and will soon make the announcement for iOS. These two features, which will be available in a few weeks, will bring YouTube Shorts closer to Instagram Reels.

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🔻YouTube Gets TikTok and Instagram Scam Features
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🔺 YouTube has introduced a number of features for Shorts videos, similar to those found on TikTok and Instagram. US-based technology giant Google has signed a deal for the Shorts section of YouTube, a number of new features announced. Here is what Google has prepared for YouTube:

🔺You will be able to create and customize automatic subtitles: Creators who create Shorts videos on YouTube can now share their voices in their videos automatically they will be able to turn it into subtitles.

🔺Instagram’s “Add You Too” feature comes to YouTube Shorts: One of the features added to YouTube Shorts is the “You add too” feature. Users will have the opportunity to have an experience similar to Instagram with the “Add Yours” section that they will add to their Shorts videos.

🔺It will be easier to turn long videos into Shorts: YouTube has already created several tools to turn long videos into Shorts. The YouTube algorithm will manage the process completely itself. Thus, a video shared on the YouTube channel will be converted into Shorts within seconds.

🔺Remixes released on YouTube Shorts can be remixed: One of the features announced for YouTube Shorts is about remixes. Users can now remix a previously made shorts video to suit their tastes. they can rearrange.

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🎤 Messi’s Instagram Story Made This Meme Coin Rocket!
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🔹 Argentine footballer Lionel Messi has joined the list of celebrities who promote meme coins through their social media accounts. After this promotion, the token price However, some believe that the football legend’s Instagram account was hacked to promote the Solana meme coin WATER.

🔹 In recent weeks, celebrities with millions of followers, such as Metallica and American rapper 50 Cent, have also had their social media accounts hacked. However, the price movements of some tokens continue to surprise those who see them. There are also interesting stories behind them.

🔹 Lionel Messi shared a story on Monday with the theme of WATER meme coin. Messi also tagged the Instagram page of the meme coin in his story. Messi’s Instagram story can be confusing as he usually supports green projects. Meanwhile, the post in question wasn’t taken down until July 9, and the footballer didn’t report that his Instagram account had been compromised.

🔹 It is not clear whether Lionel Messi’s Instagram account was hacked or not. However, many people are disappointed that the football legend is promoting a meme coin. The crypto community also believes that the team behind the BEER meme coin launched WATER.

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❓ Why Does Instagram Label Your Posts “Made with AI”?
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📌 Instagram’s new “Made with AI” labels are causing confusion as photographers and content creators slap the label on posts that use minimal or no AI editing. If you are one of those who hang out on Instagram every day, you should definitely check the “Made with Artificial Intelligence” You’ve seen the label. So what could be the reason for this?

📌 Meta didn’t give much detail on how it detects AI content, but it said it was

“based on industry-shared Detecting artificial intelligence signals or users self-reporting that they are uploading AI content.”

Meta is a digital watermarking system Not a member of C2PA Content Credentials but it can mark content with artificial intelligence using some of its signals.

📌 Adobe, the maker of Photoshop, is one of the founding partners of Content Credentials standards.
Even if you are the person in the photo Photoshop’s “Generative Fill” tool If you have used it, there is a high probability that Instagram will perceive it as artificial intelligence. That is, although these tools have a similar effect on the photo, Instagram does not recognize them as AI.

📌 Actually there is. Before sharing the photo Disable the “Made with AI” tag It may work. However, if you still have this issue, you need to make a small adjustment. When the edited file is copied and pasted into a black document after reloading it into Photoshop and when recorded again, Instagram does not flag this image as AI.

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⚡️ Instagram now lets you add up to 20 songs to your Reels
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➡️ Instagram will now let you add up to 20 audio tracks to your Reels, according to an update spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. When you add different tracks to a reel, Instagram will label the audio mix as belonging to you, allowing other users to share and reuse it.

➡️ Before this update, you could only add one track to your Reels. But now that you can include multiple tracks, you can sync different audio to the text, stickers, and clips that appear in your Reels, potentially making for an even more chaotic video.

➡️ To use the feature, hit the new "add to mix" button that appears in Instagram's video editor. From there, you can choose the tracks you want to include, which portions of the songs to use, and where to place them in your video. After you post a reel, other users can see all the tracks included in it and will also see a button to "use audio mix" in their own videos.

➡️ This is one feature that even TikTok doesn't have yet; users there still need to use a workaround or third-party app to get multiple songs in their videos.

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🔸 Instagram will help researchers study if it’s hurting teen mental health
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🔸 Instagram will let a select group of researchers access its data to study how the platform affects the mental health of teens and young adults. The pilot program, launched in partnership with the Center for Open Science, could produce independent studies that offer insight into the relationship between social media and a teen's well-being.

🔸 Researchers will gain access to Instagram data for up to six months, which may include information on how many accounts a teen follows, how much they use Instagram, their account settings, and more. Meta notes it won't provide access to a user's demographic information, nor will it include the contents of their posts, comments, or messages.

🔸 Through the program, first reported by The Atlantic, COS will choose up to seven research proposals in different areas related to the mental health of teens. Researchers must also recruit the teen participants and get their parents' permission.

COS says the study of data directly from Instagram could help "contribute to understanding of well-being when combined with other sources of data," such as surveys and other types of studies.

🔸 Curtiss Cobb, Meta's vice president of research, said in a statement,

"Parents, policymakers, academics and technology companies are grappling with how best to support young people as they navigate online spaces, but we need more data to understand the full picture"

Instagram's effect on the mental health of teens has been in the spotlight for a while now.

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🚀 Instagram is adding expiring and semiprivate comments
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⭐ Instagram Notes - a temporary away status-like feature - is expanding, the company announced today. Users will now be able to leave Notes on Reels and grid posts, where their comments will float on top of the content in little bubbles. Like Notes, these comments are temporary - they'll disappear after three days unless you delete them earlier.

⭐ The new temporary comments are also semiprivate, and users can tailor who's able to see their comment: either your curated list of close friends or followers you follow back. Based on screenshots, it also appears as though users can tag each other in Notes on Reels and posts. They're basically hidden comments for a smaller audience.

⭐ When users encounter Reels and posts with Notes from friends, those comments will appear almost like a sticker on top of content — the feature is clearly meant to tap into the more private ways people use Instagram, like DMing with friends. Seeing what friends are saying on the platform without having to scroll through comments could be helpful.

⭐ At the same time, it's a bit unnerving to know people can now leave comments I won't be able to see on my posts - and I wonder how the feature could facilitate bullying, pile-ons, or harassment, especially if the creator of the content can't see Notes. Meta spokesperson Christine Pai clarified that users can turn off the Notes feature on their content if they prefer.

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🌐 Mark Zuckerberg says Trump’s fist pump was ‘one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life’
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➡️ Just days after former President Donald Trump vowed to send Mark Zuckerberg to prison for "long periods of time," the CEO of Meta is returning the favor - by complimenting Trump. In an interview with Bloomberg that's set to air on Tuesday, Zuckerberg was asked about what's at stake in the upcoming US presidential election.

➡️ Zuckerberg first spoke about how Meta is focusing less on politics across its platforms by allowing users to tweak their settings to see less political content and recommending less content of that kind to users. Zuckerberg also says he will not personally "endorse" either President Joe Biden or Trump - before offering, unprompted, his take on the Trump rally shooting.

"Seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I've ever seen in my life," Zuckerberg told Bloomberg. "On some level as an American, it's like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit and that fight, and I think that that's why a lot of people like the guy."

➡️ Though Zuckerberg didn't explicitly endorse Trump, his comments may help to soothe the former president's anger toward the Facebook founder, whom he has previously referred to as an "Election Fraudster."

"All I can say is that if I'm elected President, we will pursue Election Fraudsters at levels never seen before, and they will be sent to prison for long periods of time," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "We already know who you are. DON'T DO IT! ZUCKERBUCKS, be careful!"

➡️ Trump and other Republican politicians have rallied against "the elite," even while members of that very class in the tech world raise millions of dollars in support of his campaign. Billionaire Elon Musk endorsed Trump shortly after the assassination attempt at a campaign rally last week, and he reportedly plans to send $45 million a month to the pro-Trump America PAC, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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🟢 Is Instagram affecting young people’s mental health?
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⚡ Meta, which hosts major social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, has provided some of its data to researchers for a study on the mental health of young people who share posts on Instagram as part of a research program.

⚡ This decision has brought about both ethical and scientific discussions. With its latest decision, Meta is trying to determine whether social media is psychologically harmful to young users by providing some of its Instagram data for review by researchers.

⚡ According to the news from The Verge, the Open Science Center (COS) and Meta's joint work will produce independent studies examining the effects of social media on young people's mental health.
This new study, called the Instagram Data Access Pilot Program, will conduct a comprehensive study on how positive Instagram usage is for teens and young adults.


⚡ Instagram has agreed to share all of its data for the last 6 months with COS for this study. In this sense, Instagram users' concerns about data privacy have already been raised.

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🟡 Instagram Will Share Data with Researchers to Protect Youth
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🟠 Meta has announced that it will share Instagram data with researchers, who will use the data to examine how the platform harms young people’s mental health. Instagram and Facebook Meta, which includes social media platforms such as mental health of young people has been under fire for many years because of the risks it poses to the internet.

🟠 So much so that many people, including authorities, believed that these platforms were negatively affecting young people. We have seen the company testify about this issue in the US. In addition, there have been investigations into child safety from both the US and the EU.

🟠 Meta has been making constant moves to address these concerns. Now, a new one has been added to the mix. The company says, will present their data to researchers announced. As part of this program launched in partnership with the Center for Open Science, a non-profit organization in the United States, Instagram: access to data from a select group of researchers.

🟠 These researchers will conduct studies on how the platform affects the mental health of children and young adults. Researchers will have access to up to six months of Instagram data. The data includes how many accounts they follow, how much they use Instagram, account settings and more.

🟠 However, messages, posts and other sensitive information will not be shared. Meta will not be involved in the research process. That is, only scientists will be involved. If the researchers’ families give their permission can include young people in their work It is said that better results can be achieved with methods such as surveys.

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🔻Instagram is bringing a note-adding feature to Reels!
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🔹 Instagram is introducing a new feature that could transform communication on the platform. Users will now be able to leave temporary comments that will disappear after three days, which they can add to Reels and posts.

🔹 This feature is essentially an expanded version of the Notes feature, which was previously only available to share among Close Friends and disappeared after 24 hours. Users can customize who can see these comments; only people in their “Close Friends” list or people they follow can see them.

🔹 Instagram seems to be aiming for users to use the platform in a more private way, like DMs, with this feature. Not having to scroll through comments to see what friends think of posts could have a positive impact on the user experience. However, there are some concerns.

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🔻 Chuck Schumer plans to bring two major kids online safety bills to the Senate floor this week
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⚡ Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) plans to announce in a speech that he will bring the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) to the Senate floor this week for a procedural vote. This tees up the biggest step yet on the federal level to move forward with a law in the area of children’s online safety legislation.

“Over the past few months I’ve met with families from across the country who have gone through the worst thing a parent could endure – losing a child,” Schumer said in a statement.
“Rather than retreating into the darkness of their loss, these families lit a candle for others with their advocacy. I am proud to work side-by-side with them and put on the floor legislation that I Believe will pass and better protect our children from the negative risks of social media and other online platforms. It has been long and daunting road to get this bill passed, which can change and save lives, but today, we are one monumental step closer to success.”

KOSA would impose a duty of care on online platforms to take reasonable steps to mitigate certain harms to minors, require the option for parental controls for the accounts of minors, and prevent features like autoplay.


⚡ COPPA 2.0 would build on an existing children's privacy law to raise the age for privacy protections from 13 to 17 and ban targeted advertising for that group. Some advocacy groups like Fight for the Future and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have remained critical of KOSA, fearing it would stifle speech across the internet and could limit access to certain resources for marginalized kids on ideological grounds.

⚡ Schumer had tried to pass the bills through unanimous consent - an expedited way to pass legislation if no senator opposes it - but late last year, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) announced he'd oppose such a move due to concerns about the earlier version's impact on LGBTQ + content. Still, the bills have overwhelming support that should ensure their success in the chamber so long as they are given the time to proceed.

⚡ While states throughout the country have passed varying types of online safety bills for children, many have been successfully blocked on First Amendment grounds, and still others have yet to contend with the implications of a recent Supreme Court decision affirming that social media companies' content moderation and curation choices are expressive, protected speech.

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