If you’re an avid user of Instagram then we’re sure you’re familiar with discovering new content with the help of the app's Following Hashtags feature.

Instagram is introducing a series of new safety features to protect users from sextortion scammers, the company announced on Thursday.

Meta is scrambling to try and bring a major moderation failure on its popular Instagram and Threads app under control.

Illustration: Alex Castro / The VergeInstagram is more explicitly telling content creators, businesses, and other users how they should be posting to the platform via a new feature called “best practices.”The best practices hub is available for professional accounts on Instagram, and is accessible through the professional dashboard.

Mit mehr als einer halbe Milliarde Views in rund zwei Wochen haben Matthias Luft und Anja Hager einen Instagram-Rekord aufgestellt.

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty ImagesMeta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing a JD Vance dossier that was allegedly nabbed in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign.

Washington Post:Neo-Nazis are creating AI videos of Hitler making English versions of his speeches and to rebrand him as “misunderstood” via TikTok, X, Instagram, and YouTube  —  Videos of the Nazi leader speaking in English are reaching millions online.  Experts fear they are fueling a surge of antisemitism.

When you think of the term "Instagram stalking," what kind of scenarios come to mind?

Kalley Huang / The Information:Source: most daily users of Meta AI do so through WhatsApp, followed by Facebook, and few via Instagram; the vast majority of Meta AI's users are outside the US  —  A year after Meta Platforms introduced its artificial intelligence assistant, a picture is emerging of how people are using it …

Jason Citron, CEO of Discord; Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap; Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok; Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X; and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta are sworn in as they testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC.

Programming note: The first edition of the week is landing on Tuesday morning to accommodate some news.

Meta to start using public posts on Facebook, Instagram in UK to train AI  Reuters

Instagram Marketing ist heute ein essenzieller Bestandteil jeder erfolgreichen Social-Media-Strategie – immerhin nutzen monatlich über zwei Milliarden Menschen weltweit die App.

Soziale Netzwerke sind ein fester Bestandteil im Alltag vieler junger Menschen.

Another way to promote topical engagement in the app.

Instagram’s moving to a more rectangular main profile grid.

New research is sharing some unique findings about the outcome related to Meta’s ban on political content.

Turkey has unblocked Instagram after the app agreed to deal with the government’s concerns about crime-related content and censorship.

Turkey restores access to Instagram after 9-day block  Reuters

Zwei der größten und populärsten Online-Plattformen sind eine Kooperation eingegangen, damit ihre User deren Features kombinieren können.