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Meta's Oversight Board investigates whether Facebook and Instagram uphold consistent standards of content moderation across the world when users share explicit AI images of female public figures.

Meta's Threads is now confirmed to be testing a new, minor, yet essential, real-time search result option to help users find news and timely information by filtering results by recency.

Meta's Threads will be shutting down in Türkiye on April 29, due to an order by the Turkish Competition Authority which prohibits the sharing of data between Threads and Instagram.

Meta announced today that it would begin labeling content it identifies as made by AI-based tools on its Instagram, Threads, and Facebook social media networks in May, along with more fact-checking.

Threads is working on a new feature that lets you swipe right to like a post. Adam Mosseri announced that the feature is now being tested on the platform with a limited pool of users.

Meta has now launched a dedicated Threads app for Microsoft Windows. Mark Zuckerberg announced on the platform that the social media app is now available on the Microsoft Store to download.

Meta's Facebook social media service seems to be coming back online after an extended outage. It also appears that Meta's Instagram and Threads services are also slowly coming back online.

Now you can save your favorite posts in the Threads app. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on the platform that the Save on Threads feature has started rolling out more broadly.

Threads is testing a couple of highly requested features with a limited number of users, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced. Screenshots of the new features were shared to his Threads account.

Meta has announced that its Instagram and Threads social networks will no longer "proactively recommend" political content. Users can go into their settings if they do wish to see that content.

Meta will now label photos on its platforms as "Imagined with AI" when they are fully generated by AI tools. It aims to clearly identify photorealistic media as AI-generated rather than authentic.

Bluesky, the X alternative social networking service, is now allowing everyone to sign up and use it, as it ditches its long-running invite-only model that still brought in over three million users.

Meta has been under the radar of the Turkish competition board since 2022 after it stated that Meta violated the competition law. Today, it has placed another fine that needs to be paid daily

Even though some time ago, Threads did not appear to have chronological sorting for its posts, there have been updates. Now, users can sort their search results reverse chronologically.

Meta's competitor to X (nee. Twitter), Threads, has now launched in Europe, after being initially delayed due to the introduction of the Digital Markets Act across its member states.

The text-based version of Instagram, Threads, could have had a different name. Instagram head Adam Mosseri talked about the alternative names they had in mind while picking a name for Threads.

Threads is now rolling out the ability to tag posts in its app to all regions across the globe. However, the feature works differently than Instagram, where you can only add one tag per post.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri came forward to clarify why Threads can't display search results in chronological order. Keyword search for Threads was recently rolled out to all the regions globally.

Meta is preparing to launch Threads in Europe as early as next month to comply with regional privacy laws. The company may initially offer EU users a view-only mode to browse posts.

Up until now if you wanted to delete your Threads account, you would have to also delete your Instagram account. An update coming soon will change that, as well as new privacy updates.

Meta's Instagram spinoff Threads has started gaining traction after a rough beginning. Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media platform has just under 100 million monthly active users.

Threads posts have now started appearing in Facebook for some users. Meta confirmed that change but some users are not happy about it because they say the platforms cater to different audiences.

In a Threads post by Adam Mosseri, the company's views regarding promoting news were clarified. Mosseri suggested that while news is reported on Threads, the platform would not amplify it.

Meta has confirmed that the company is working on a new feature which will allow users to permanently delete their Threads account without needing to delete the associated Instagram account.

A new screenshot suggests that the ability to delete a Threads profile is currently under development. As of now, a user can only delete their Threads profile by deleting their Instagram account.

The Threads app is adding keyword search functionality after weeks of waiting. The new feature will allow users to search across content posts made on the platform in addition to user accounts.

Meta extends Threads by introducing a web version for certain users. If you're lucky, you can now post, interact, and view on your desktop. It will be fully released in the next few days.

Threads head, Adam Mosseri, has said that the web version of the platform is very close. It will allow users to comment, post, and reshare content from any device with a web browser.

The Poe AI platform from Quora has received a big update today that splits your conversations with bots into separate chats, similar to how ChatGPT and Bard do it. There's also a new landing page.

The Threads app is getting three new features in a new update: You can now share posts to Instagram DMs, add custom alt text, and mention users in posts. The goal is to increase engagement.

Threads is working on a web version and advanced search. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the update will roll out in the next few weeks, including web access and post-specific search.

Mark Zuckerberg's letter reveals that Threads has experienced significant user decline after launch. New features like desktop access and search are expected to create "retention hooks."

Meta has released its second-quarter earnings report. It has seen an increase in revenues, an increase in users, and expects its third-quarter revenues to grow even higher to $32-34.5 billion.

A new update to the Threads app brings the Following tab to the Home feed among various features. You can now see a chronological feed of posts only from the people you follow on the Threads app.

A new Threads update has arrived with some much-awaited features such as translation, scrolling improvements, subscribing to unfollowed accounts. These are available on the iOS version of the app.

New data suggests that Threads reached 150 million downloads worldwide within the first seven days of its launch, making it the fastest app to achieve this milestone, 5.5 times more quickly.

Meta has blocked EU users from accessing its Threads app via VPNs. Users are reporting profiles and content are not loading when they try to access the social network with VPN services.

Data analytics firms are seeing a drop in the daily active users and the time spent on the newly launched app Threads. As per Sensor Tower, the number of daily active users has declined by around 20%.

You can now check out the official Threads social media accounts for Microsoft, Microsoft 365, Xbox, and others, although some of these new accounts don't have any content posted yet.