Instagram users have told the BBC of their confusion, fear and anger after having their accounts suspended, often for being wrongly accused by parent company Meta of breaching the platform's child sex abuse rules.

Instagram’s controversial new “Map” feature carries “significant public safety and data privacy concerns” that could endanger kids, a bipartisan group of state attorneys general warned in a

Utah’s top law enforcement officer and his counterparts from a majority of states this week called on the social media giant Meta to add guardrails to a newly launched Instagram feature allowing the company and anyone who follows a user on the app to see their location.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has joined a bipartisan coalition of 37 states urging Instagram to strengthen its privacy and safety protections for users of its new location-sharing feature. According to the attorneys general,

An emerging guard of paramilitary activists are using social media and edgy aesthetics to build a new brand of anti-government, Christian nationalist militias.

Instagram is developing a new feature called “Picks” to help users discover shared interests with friends. Indeed, a spokesperson for the

Accounts for teenagers using Meta's platform, especially Instagram, will be getting new protections for direct messages and to help users spot potential scammers.

The senators argued that children are particularly vulnerable to the new Instagram update in a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday

The increase is not surprising since X has fallen out of favor in the last year or so, and Threads is picking up the slack.