The future of the internet is a slop-filled infinite scroll. How do we reclaim our attention?
Like it or not, the billionaire gets to decide how half the world uses technology.
Why you should make your phone boring.
Did you just send me an Instagram Reel? Are you trying to kill me?
The end of one wildly popular platform is a chance to overhaul the broken social media industry.
The tech innovations that made the world a slightly better place this year.
The collective freakout about the youth mental health crisis has reached a tipping point.
What to know about Meta’s new restrictions on young people’s social media use.
What is the Kids’ Online Safety Act, and why should you care about it?
In the wake of another deadly attack by Israel, a seemingly AI-generated image has circulated on Instagram Stories.
Americans are having smaller families. Why are we obsessed with large ones?
With 100 million users, Mark Zuckerberg is already winning his fight against Elon Musk — at least in the cage match that is social media.
Kevin Systrom wants to solve the “existential crises” facing the news industry.
Over 100 pages of documents show how the space agency handles social media and discussions about Ukraine.
New features that nudge users to rethink posting mean comments or messages seem to work in some cases.
Experts told Recode it’s possible that Facebook will be forced to sell both apps, but not anytime soon.
Artists want Instagram’s Community Guidelines to change. Will Facebook finally “free the nipple”?
After a weekend of shootings that killed 29, Democratic presidential candidates want immediate change.
Proponents of the law say it’s necessary to avoid confusing consumers. That...doesn’t sound right.
Instagram is one of Facebook’s most valuable products and is on track to drive most of the company’s advertising revenue growth.
Jones, Farrakhan, and others just got kicked off Facebook and Instagram.
This number is much, much bigger than Facebook originally shared.
Amazon’s failure in “discovery shopping” is Instagram’s opportunity, as its users can now shop inside the app.
No more clicking out to a retailer’s website.
“We live in a time where the anger against big tech has increased tenfold,” said Kevin Systrom. “That doesn’t mean that the answer is to break all of the companies up.”
Don’t listen to the conventional wisdom about relying on Instagram or Snapchat, Porter says — just go where your audience is.
“I believe a privacy-focused communications platform will become even more important than today’s open platforms,” Zuckerberg wrote Wednesday.
Facebook is restructuring its “youth team,” shutting down its new teen meme app LOL, and doubling down on Messenger Kids.
The company’s planned merger of Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger into one system should alarm regulators, NYU’s Scott Galloway says.
Will someone cash in on the payout potential of that Kardashian-smashing egg?
Instagram said it was a “bug,” but also said it was a test gone wrong. Hmmmm.
Fewer people saw Russian content on Instagram than on Facebook, but they interacted with it a lot more.
On this episode of Recode Decode, Tynan talks about overcoming investors’ skepticism in order to start her online framing company.
Platforms like YouTube and Netflix are at war, and Shots Studios CEO John Shahidi is happy to sell content to all of them.
Vishal Shah has been promoted to lead all of Instagram’s product efforts.
Instagram is going to rely on “machine learning tools” to cut down on people gaming the system.
The new question: Can Facebook build a business around Stories?
Celebrities are only interesting some of the time, Bell said on the latest episode of Recode Media.
Systrom has no idea what he wants to do next, but he knows he won’t just be sitting on a beach.
As Instagram’s founders depart, execution can’t skip a beat.