Instagram is preparing to remove end-to-end encryption (E2EE) from its direct messaging system, marking a notable shift in how private conversations are handled on the platform

Instagram will discontinue end-to-end encrypted direct messages (DMs) after 8 May 2026

Meta quietly announced the end of E2E encryption, which will terminate on May 8.

In a very definitive case of 'not something that happens very often', Instagram has decided to remove end-to-end encryption (E2EE)

Meta plans to remove end-to-end encryption (E2EE) from Instagram direct messages by May 8, 2026

If you use the feature for your messages, you may need to save them before the it disappears.

Meta is killing end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs

Instagram has long limited users' ability to share links, restricting link-sharing to Stories, Reels and user profiles

Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube and Roblox are among the platforms UK regulators say aren't putting children's safety at the heart of their products.

Meta rolls out scam protection warnings to Facebook, Instagram

In September it introduced teen accounts aimed at teens between the age of 13 and 15 for Facebook and Messenger. A year earlier, Under-16 teen accounts became a requirement on Instagram

In Discord servers and Instagram DMs, content creators are organizing, turning followings in the millions into millions of dollars in political giving.

Meta removed 10.9 million Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to criminal scam centers last year, the company announced on Wednesday.

Viral student-run TikTok and Instagram accounts are using AI to make memes of school faculty comparing them to figures like Jeffrey Epstein and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Last month, it sued three entities from Brazil and China that were behind scams that leveraged images and deepfakes of popular people to promote dubious products and investment schemes. Meta said today that over the course of 2025, it removed 159 million scam ads as well as 10.9 million Facebook and Instagram accounts tied to criminal scam centers

Meta has introduced a set of new safeguards for teenage users in Malaysia through its Teen Accounts feature across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger

Menyedari kepentingan ini, Meta Malaysia baru-baru ini menganjurkan sesi meja bulat bersama media untuk membincangkan komitmen syarikat dalam melindungi remaja ketika berada di ruang siber. Menurut Meta, perlindungan utama diberikan melalui pelaksanaan ciri Teen Accounts yang kini tersedia sepenuhnya di Malaysia untuk Facebook, Instagram dan […]

Influencers have long hawked supplements on platforms like Instagram and TikTok

Tahun lalu Australia menjadi negara pertama mengharamkan pengguna bawah 16 tahun daripada mengakses platform media sosial seperti TikTok, YouTube dan Instagram

Meutya Hafid , Indonesia's communication and digital affairs minister, announced that a new government regulation will require "high-risk" platforms to delete any accounts from Indonesia that are under 16, starting on March 28. Hafid said in the announcement that the implementation would be done in stages, starting with major platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, Roblox and Bigo Live, a live-streaming platform based in Singapore

The rule will roll out starting March 28 and makes Indonesia the first country in Southeast Asia to impose such a restriction. The Guardian reports: Meutya Hafid said in a statement to media said that she signed a government regulation that will mean children under the age of 16 can no longer have accounts on high-risk digital platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, Roblox and Bigo Live, a popular livestreaming site

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. "Shortly after the deadline to divest passed, President Trump issued an executive order purportedly granting an extension for TikTok to find a domestic owner and directed his Attorney General not to enforce the law." The plaintiffs in the suit are two software engineers from California: One is a shareholder in Alphabet Inc., YouTube's parent company; the other is a shareholder in Meta Platforms, Inc., which is Instagram's parent company

Zuckerberg said he wasnt sure if that's actually how it works in practice, but I agree that you're summarizing what they appear to be saying. Later, the CEO was questioned about a document that graphed the proportion of 11 and 12-year-olds who were monthly active users on Instagram

E2EE means only the sender and recipient of a direct message can view its contents, making it the most secure form of communication available to the general public. Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and X have embraced it because they say their priority is maximizing user privacy

TikTok won't encrypt your direct messages like other platforms including Instagram, Messenger, and X, which offer the privacy option.

The human then decimates the machine with a hammer. In an Instagram post, Library of Congress moving image curator Jason Evans Groth said the film represents, "probably the first instance of a robot ever captured in a moving image." (The word "robot" didn't appear until 1921, when Czech dramatist Karel Capek coined it in his science fiction play R.U.R..) "Today, many of us are worried about AI and robots," said archivist and filmmaker Rick Prelinger, in an email to NPR

The label is meant to help creators comply with years-old FTC regulations requiring clear disclosure of sponsored content. The agency sent out letters reminding influencers about this requirement in 2017, and Instagram added a disclosure feature that same year

The young woman, who accuses Meta and Google of making addictive social media platforms, has been speaking in court.

Antara cabaran utama membesarkan anak di zaman edan ini ialah memastikan mereka tidak terjebak dengan aktiviti yang membahayakan diri sendiri. Hari ini Instagram memperkenalkan ciri menghubungi ibu bapa atau penjaga sekiranya anak di bawah jagaan mereka berulang kali mencari kandungan berkaitan bunuh diri […]

Safety campaigners say Meta is "passing the buck" with its new feature for parents using Instagram's teen supervision tools.

Parents will receive alerts via email, text, WhatsApp or Instagram if their teens are repeatedly searching for "phrases promoting suicide or self-harm."

Instagram is adding a new alert for the parents of teen users of its social media platform

LOS ANGELES, Feb 26 The former psychotherapist of a California woman suing Metas Instagram and Alph...

While this launched on the S25, it only worked on audio and video you captured yourself. Now, Samsung expanded it to most major video platforms, including Netflix, Instagram and YouTube, adding the ability to strip out noise and distractions and amplify the volume of voices

Naturally, Google is quick to point out the boon this represents for shopaholics. If you see a fit you like on Instagram, you can circle an entire person and the tool will attempt to find a match for each item they're wearing, including any shoes and accessories

Instagram arrives on Google TV as Meta bets on big-screen Reels.

The word appeared in the notification under the link. This was first spotted by Instagram user Danny Price , who accompanied a screengrab with a caption reading "what an interesting Black History Month this has turned out to be." Google has since apologized and said that it has "removed the offensive notification" and is "working to prevent this from happening again." This story follows the aforementioned BAFTA incident, in which an audience member with Tourette syndrome shouted the N-word when Michael B

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Meta executives proceeded with a plan to encrypt the messaging services connected to its Facebook and Instagram apps despite internal warnings that it would hinder the social media giant's ability to flag child-exploitation cases to law enforcement, according to internal company documents filed in a New Mexico state court case

While there's some debate among experts about the line between overuse and addiction, and whether social media can cause the latter, there is no doubt that many people feel like they can't escape the pull of Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and other platforms

Voice and video calls were blocked via Telegram in August. The pressure is the latest move in a long-running campaign to promote what the Kremlin calls a sovereign internet that's led to blocks on YouTube, Instagram and WhatsApp..

At the age of 6, she was already watching YouTube videos. Then she had an Instagram account years before she was actually allowed

Whether TikTok, Instagram and other platforms are as dangerous as alcohol or tobacco is a question now putting Meta and Google on trial in the United States, putting TikTok under pressure in the EU and being debated by governments around the world

Can being "very online" really affect our brains, asks the Washington Post: Research suggests that scrolling through short videos on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube Shorts is affecting our attention, memory and mental health

This week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a landmark social media trial , claiming the company only wanted to make Instagram "useful" and not addictive

Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta in social media addiction trial, which could have major ramifications for online platforms

Zuckerberg said the company's policy was that children under 13 aren't allowed on the platform and that they are removed when identified. Lanier showed an internal Meta email from 2 that estimated 4 million children under 13 were using Instagram

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta is preparing to spend $65 million this year to boost state politicians who are friendly to the artificial intelligence industry, beginning this week in Texas and Illinois, according to company representatives. The sum is the biggest election investment by Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp

Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Wednesday in a high-profile jury trial over social media addiction. In an appearance that was described by NBC News as "combative," the Facebook founder reportedly said that Meta's goal was to make Instagram "useful" not increase the time users are spending in the app

NBC News reports: It's the first of a consolidated group of cases -- from more than 1,600 plaintiffs, including over 350 families and over 250 school districts -- scheduled to be argued before a jury in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Plaintiffs accuse the owners of Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Snap of knowingly designing addictive products harmful to young users' mental health

The social media platform has announced it will launch creator subscriptions for users. Meta-owned Instagram and Facebook currently offer a similar feature

Snap is entering a crowded market, with Patreon, Substack and OnlyFans built around paid memberships, while YouTube and Instagram also have their own offerings.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri told a Los Angeles courtroom last week that a teenager's 16-hour single-day session on the platform was "problematic use" but not an addiction, a distinction he drew repeatedly during testimony in a landmark trial over social media's harm to minors

Google never asked its users before adding AI Overviews to its search results and AI-generated email summaries to Gmail, notes the New York Times. And Meta didn't ask before making "Meta AI" an unremovable part of its tool in Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger

For the Safe Online Standards (S.O.S.) program, an independent panel of global experts will evaluate companies on parameters including safety rules, design, moderation and mental health resources. TikTok, Snap and Meta the parent company of Facebook and Instagram will be the first companies to be graded

The fact that the Commission said TikTok should change the basic design of its service is "ground-breaking for the business model fueled by surveillance and advertising," said Katarzyna Szymielewicz, president of the Panoptykon Foundation, a Polish civil society group. That doesn't bode well for other platforms, particularly Meta's Facebook and Instagram

We review every legal demand and push back against those that are overbroad, the company said. Some of the accounts that were subpoenaed belong to users posting ICE activity in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania on Facebook and Instagram in English and Spanish