Instagram to collect ages in push for youth safety and alcohol ad dollars
Facebook Inc.'s Instagram said it will require birth dates from all new users starting on Wednesday, expanding the audience for ads for alcohol and other age-restricted products while offering new safety measures for younger users. Until now, Instagram except for limited circumstances has required its ...
Facebook works to restore access after Thanksgiving Day outage
Facebook Inc. said it was working to restore access on Thursday to its users after issues with its central software systems triggered an outage in its family of apps, including Instagram, on the busy Thanksgiving Day holiday. "We quickly investigated, started restoring access, and we're ...
KDDI Corp. and social media giant Facebook Inc. will jointly develop services to be provided through a 5G network in Japan, according to informed sources. They aim to offer smartphone users a product sales system utilizing augmented reality by taking advantage of the massive data ...
How Japanese social media changed 2010s eating habits
Move over complicated bentos: Japanese recipes in the 2010s are all about making cozy, unfussy food that looks good online.
Facebook removes 3.2 billion fake accounts and millions of child abuse posts
Facebook Inc. removed 3.2 billion fake accounts between April and September, along with millions of posts depicting child abuse and suicide, according to its latest content moderation report released on Wednesday. That more than doubles the number of fake accounts taken down during the same ...
Top boy band Arashi begins global online distribution of all singles year ahead of ending activities
Iconic Japanese boy band Arashi has started global online distribution of all of its singles, about a year ahead of the group's scheduled suspension of its activities. Downloading and subscription streaming of all of the five-member group's past 64 songs as well as a new ...
Russian operatives sacrifice followers to stay undercover on Facebook ahead of U.S. election
Efforts by Russian influence campaigns to stay undetected on social media ahead of next year's U.S. elections are undermining their ability to gain followers and spread divisive political messages, a senior Facebook executive told Reuters. Social media users need to stand out from the crowd ...
Russian accounts targeted U.S. voters on Instagram ahead of 2020 election, Facebook says
A network of Instagram accounts operated from Russia has targeted Americans with divisive political messages ahead of next year's presidential election and posed as local people in U.S. states including Virginia and Florida, Facebook said. Facebook said it had suspended the accounts on Monday, as ...
Facebook Inc. will no longer allow graphic images of self-harm on its platform as it tightens its policies on suicide content amid growing criticism of how social media companies moderate violent and potentially dangerous content. The social network also said on Tuesday self-injury related content ...
Sumo 101: Rikishi & social media
At first glance, sumo can seem intransigently stuck in the past. Training consists mostly of repeating the exact same movements day after day with little regard for modern sports science or recovery, and both clothing and rituals remain unchanged from what they were centuries ago. Dig ...
Facebook launches dating service in United States, spurring 2% share surge
Facebook Inc. is launching its dating services in the United States, the social network said on Thursday, sending its shares up 2 percent. The company said users will be able to integrate their Instagram account with Facebook dating profile and add Instagram followers to their ...
Meet the women reframing black femininity in Japanese spaces
Ebony Bowens and Tynelle Pozdnyakov dip into Japanese fashion subcultures in an effort to challenge stereotypes and have a little fun while doing it.
