… The issue, which Meta says has since been patched, cropped up around the same time Barack Obama’s White House account on Instagram was hacked. On Sunday, users noticed that the @obamawhitehouse account began posting images containing Iranian propaganda. …
… The number refers to “users who had their passwords reset through the support tool, did not have 2FA enabled on their account and whose Instagram accounts were likely accessed by an unauthorized party” — though Meta says it’s an “upper bound,” as some of these accounts may have been accessed legiti… …
… Blunder, More Than 34,000 Instagram Accounts Became Vulnerable | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/technology/34000-instagram-accounts-ai.html | The New York Times
… I asked Meta whether accounts primarily clipping other streamers would be considered “unoriginal.” ”We look at a range of factors, not just whether similar content already exists on Instagram, to determine if an account is posting original content or re-uploading others’ work,” says Cullen Heaney, … …
… Another Instagram account that last posted in 2017 when it was sharing calligraphy videos appears now to be part of a clip farm, sharing Call of Duty clips tagged as sponsored with captions like “This might be the smoothest sniping has ever been in a battle royale 👀.” The original clip that made Cl… …
… Cameron Faulkner May 12 I’m living for the anti-AI Hacks media tour. Clips of Hacks creators Lucia Aniello, Jen Statsky, and Paul W. …
… The way, in particular, Mark Zuckerberg talks about it is at some point they know more about the viewer of Instagram than anybody, or they want to know more about the viewer of Instagram than anybody, and they will just deliver the right creative to that person at the right moment. …
… I don’t like what Instagram has done. I disagree with a lot of their decisions. I still have an Instagram page. …
… He sent his CFO an email saying, “Well, people leave Facebook, they go to Instagram, they like Instagram better. So to reduce competition, we’ll buy Instagram. …
… So then Instagram turned into TikTok, and then YouTube turned into TikTok. …