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Facebook May Actually Be In a 'Stronger Position' After Apple's iOS 14 Privacy Changes

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said he is confident the social media company "will be able to manage through" Apple's upcoming planned privacy update to iOS 14, which will make it easier for iPhone and iPad users to block companies from tracking their activity to target ads. "We'll be in a good position," Zuckerberg said Thursday afternoon in Josh Constine's PressClub Clubhouse room. Apple's upcoming privacy changes will inform users about...
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2021 Lucky 7k

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Leslie Jordan talks to Anderson about being 22 years sober

Actor and Instagram sensation Leslie Jordan and Anderson Cooper discuss Jordan's decision to get sober 22 years ago. Watch "Full Circle" Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 6p E.T.
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Beloved sitcom actor reveals what led him to get sober 22 years ago

Actor and Instagram sensation Leslie Jordan and Anderson Cooper discuss Jordan's decision to get sober 22 years ago. Watch "Full Circle" Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 6p E.T.
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Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13

Executives at Instagram are planning to build a version of the popular photo-sharing app that can be used by children under the age of 13, BuzzFeed News reported this week, citing an internal company post. From the report: "I'm excited to announce that going forward, we have identified youth work as a priority for Instagram and have added it to our H1 priority list," Vishal Shah, Instagram's vice president of product, wrote on an employee message board on Thursday. "We will be building a new you...
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5 missing features that would make the Insta360 Go 2 more awesome

The Insta360 Go 2 offers a ton of utility thanks to its diminutive size, but here are five missing features that would make it more awesome.
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When you have constipation, bloating and gas despite being a plant based vegan (plus my huge balloon belly photos)

Popping was something I didn't think much about... until I stopped doing it.  Late last year I shared that I was diagnosed with an H Pylori infection, a serious bacterial infection in the stomach that causes ulcers and can lead to cancer if untreated. You can read my original post here, or watch my video on Instagram here. I also posted an update with the specific diet/antibiotic protocol I followed here.  Eradicating my H pylori infection eliminated several of my symptoms (persistent stomach ac...
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Instagram Users Report Problems Accessing App

Thousands of Instagram users reported issues accessing the video and photo-sharing app Friday, with the bulk of the issues involving problems accessing the news feed. According to DownDetector.com, user reports of errors on Instagram began spiking just after 1:30 p.m. ET, with more than 100,000 problems reported. The reports appeared concentrated on the East Coast […]
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Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger are down (Update: they’re back)

Update (7:30 PM CET): The services seem to be returning to normal now. Hope you enjoyed the break. Our original report follows. WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger have gone down for users around the world. Thousands of users have reported problems accessing the Facebook-owned apps to outage tracking website DownDetector. Facebook is yet to provide any official response to the outages, but users are flocking to Twitter to complain about the issue. Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp collectiv...
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Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger Are Down for Many

Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger are down for many right now. From a report: More than 123,000 users have reported issues with Instagram on DownDetector. More than 23,000 users have reported issues with WhatsApp on DownDetector, too, and the service is down for one Verge staffer's family, who is based in Europe. Facebook Messenger seems to be affected as well, with more than 5,000 reports of problems on DownDetector. When navigating to Instagram's website, I saw a white page with the ...
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Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger are working after a 'technical issue' caused a brief outage across Facebook's suite of apps

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging services in the world, with over 1.2 billion users. mirtmirt/ShutterStock WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger went down for more than an hour on Friday. DownDetector reported crashes beginning around 1:30 p.m. Facebook resolved a "technical issue" that caused the issues, a spokesperson told Insider. See more stories on Insider's business page. Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger apps are back up after being do...
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp pause usual data collection with an outage

Social ad biz is working to restore service, for better or worse On Friday, shortly after 1700 UTC, users of Facebook and its WhatApp and Instagram subsidiaries began reporting difficulties connecting to the respective services.…
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Instagram, Other Facebook Services Hit by Brief Outage

UPDATED, 2:40 p.m. ET: Thousands of Instagram users reported issues accessing the video and photo-sharing app Friday, with the bulk of the issues involving problems accessing the news feed. The problems extended beyond Instagram to other Facebook services, including WhatsApp. According to Facebook, the problems were resolved after a brief disruption. “Earlier today, a technical […]
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Instagram Users Report Problems Accessing App, Other Facebook Services Also Affected

UPDATED, 2:40 p.m. ET: Thousands of Instagram users reported issues accessing the video and photo-sharing app Friday, with the bulk of the issues involving problems accessing the news feed. The problems extended beyond Instagram to other Facebook services, including WhatsApp. According to Facebook, the problems were resolved after a brief disruption. “Earlier today, a technical […]
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Thousands of users are reporting issues with Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook apps

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging services in the world, with over 1.2 billion users. mirtmirt/ShutterStock WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger went down on Friday. DownDetector reported crashes beginning around 1:30 p.m. ET. Facebook was not immediately available for additional comment. See more stories on Insider's business page. Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger apps crashed on Friday.The Facebook-owned sites and Messenger went down aro...
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Instagram and WhatsApp hit by outage

Instagram and WhatsApp are currently experiencing an apparent outage. It began around 1:40 pm ET. At the time of writing, Instagram was showing a 500 message, suggesting a back-end server error. WhatsApp meanwhile was unable to connect to the server, and messages are not being delivered. It’s not clear if the issue also affects Facebook Messenger, which last year rolled out new functionality to allow cross-platform messaging between Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Instagram’s error page. (Ima...
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Sneaky ways stores like H&M, Zara, and Uniqlo get you to spend more money on clothes

H&M, Zara, Uniqlo, Forever 21, and Fashion Nova rely on the lucrative business model of fast fashion. Fast fashion allows stores to continuously sell a high volume of clothes for cheap prices. H&M outsources most of its labor overseas where the working conditions are difficult to oversee. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. Following is a transcript of the video.Daniel: So like Cardi B says, 'I like those Balenciagas, the ones that look like socks,' right?Narrator:...
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Instagram Rings In Persian New Year With 3 New Stickers

Instagram teamed up with British-Iranian illustrator Mariam Tafsiri on three new stickers welcoming the beginning of spring to celebrate Persian New Year (Nowruz), which begins Saturday (March 20). Instagram said Tafsiri's illustrations are inspired by Qajar art, Persian miniature paintings and Islamic designs. The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network added that her interest in Qajar...
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How to Find (Good) Sex Advice on TikTok

Scrolling TikTok, users can find advice ranging from all manner of sex acts to what to put inside their vagina—with that advice itself ranging from boric acid, to ice, to athlete’s foot medication. The app is popular with teens and young adults, many of whom use it to find like-minded communities, explore their…Read more...
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Facebook Working on Instagram Product for Children Under 13 Years Old

Facebook, the social media behemoth that owns Instagram, is developing a new Instagram product for children under 13 years of age, according to leaked documents obtained by BuzzFeed. Instagram users must currently click a button declaring that they’re at least 13 years old, or that the account featuring a kid under…Read more...
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Facebook Is Developing a Version of Instagram for Children Under 13

Facebook is developing a version of Instagram thats specifically aimed at children under 13, according to an internal company post (via BuzzFeed News). "I'm excited to announce that going forward, we have identified youth work as a priority for Instagram and have added it to our H1 priority list," Vishal Shah, Instagram's vice president of product, wrote on an employee message board on Thursday. "We will be building a new youth pillar within the Community Product Group to focus on two things: (...
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Social media platforms are going to war for online talent

When Katerina Horwitz started out as a social media influencer in 2016, she didn't earn much money beyond a handful of sponsored posts. A few years later, Horwitz and her husband Yinon quit their day jobs, started a joint Instagram account and got creative with monetizing their 400,000 followers, including selling their own photo filters and building an app that offers editing templates for Instagram Stories.
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NFL hands Amazon exclusive games, and Teen Vogue editor undone by teen rogue tweets: Friday Wake-Up Call

Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our Wake-Up Call newsletters.  Touchdown for Amazon Good morning! Amazon executives are sure having a good one—the giant for just about everything is about to gain a lot more football fans. On Wednesday, the National Football League announced new long-term deals with broadcasters like CBS, Fox, NBC, AB...
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Facebook is budding to build a kid-friendly Instagram

Facebook has had many problems in dealing with content moderation when it comes to children on Instagram. The EU even started a probe last year into the social network’s data storage practices for kids. To tackle all these problems, the company is now looking to build a special version for users under the age of 13. BuzzFeed News reported last night that in an internal note, Instagram’s VP for product, Vishal Shah said that as a priority, the company wants to make the platform safer for teens an...
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Facebook building a version of Instagram for children under 13

Social media giant says it’s exploring introducing a parent-controlled experience that allows kids to ‘safely’ use the photo sharing platformFacebook is considering launching a version of its popular photo social media platform, Instagram, for children under the age of 13.BuzzFeed News first reported Facebook announced in an internal company post that the company would begin building a version of Instagram for people under the age of 13 years to allow them to “safely” use Instagram for the first...
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