Instagram privacy tech is turned off today- what does this mean for your DMs?

The platform said it would remove end-to-end encrypted messages, a major U‑turn by parent company Meta.

Brands and Celebs Lost Millions of Followers Thanks to This Instagram Update—Including Instagram Itself

Businesses, celebrities, and content creators alike lost large swaths of Instagram followers this week due to a platform ...

Instagram Follower Loss: Why Millions of Followers Disappeared Overnight

If you woke up and checked your Instagram today and wondered why you lost a bunch of followers, know that you aren't alone.

Instagram redesigns iPad app to what it always should have been

Instagram finally launched an iPad app last fall, over 15 years after the iPad debuted. But the iPad version of Instagram ...
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Instagram’s Adam Mosseri on the App’s Future, His Biggest Regrets, and Teenage Social Media Use

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, recently stopped in Milan as part of the worldwide rollout of a new feature, the Teen Account, a suite of safety measures meant to automatically apply to the app’s ...

The Celebrities Who Lost Millions Of Followers After Instagram’s Brutal Bot Cleanup

Instagram’s massive “Great Purge of 2026” has officially shaken up the social media world, and some of the platform’s biggest ...

Instagram may soon get an AI personal shopper that actually buys things for you

Meta is reportedly building AI agents that can shop and handle tasks for users, with Instagram expected to play a major role ...

Taylor Swift, Kylie Jenner among the big losers as Instagram culls accounts

Celebrities have seen net losses of millions of followers overnight thanks to one move by Meta.