On August 2, 2024, Turkey’s national communications authority, the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) announced the blocking of access to Instagram across the country. This came after a controversy surrounding the removal of posts related to the killing of Ismail Haniyeh.
A new NASA project is bringing the wonders of the universe directly to Instagram users’ fingertips, an augmented reality (AR) filter that allows users to experience celestial bodies as seen by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other space telescopes.
Meta is expected to be fined more than $800 million by Ireland’s data protection watchdog for failing to comply with a warning from the top European Union court regarding the transfer of Facebook’s European user data to servers in the United States.
Meta is preparing to enter the micro-blogging market and compete with Twitter by launching a similar text-based app by the end of June. The app, codenamed P92 or Barcelona, aims to provide a mix of Instagram and Twitter functionalities.
