The company has said that allegations against it are “simply untrue.”) The lawsuit asks an existential question about Meta’s business: Can the fundamental design and most basic features of Instagram directly cause mental-health problems in kids and teenagers?

The new Threads feature lets you share your posts — or anyone else's — to your Instagram Story without leaving the Threads app.

By Jody Godoy and Courtney Rozen LOS ANGELES, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The top executive at Meta Platforms' Instagram defended the social media platform's choices around features that some company insiders called harmful to young users,

In this photo illustration a 13-year-old boy looks at an iPhone screen display on May 21, 2025 in Bath, England. Reporter Instagram announced new restrictions for teen accounts on Tuesday amid mounting controversy over safety guidelines for younger users ...

The underage daughter of a former Meta safety researcher was bombarded with sexually explicit pictures and propositions within just days of creating her first Instagram account, according to

TikTok has long offered a way to revisit old videos you’ve seen, but until now Instagram offered no such feature. Fortunately, that missing feature is finally here: Reels now come with a dedicated watch history inside the Instagram app. Today in a new ...

Instagram said Tuesday that it would overhaul its approach to teenagers’ accounts and try to crack down on their access to objectionable content after a firestorm of bad publicity over how teens use the social media app. Instagram, which is owned by Meta ...