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Social media “influencers” are now wearing blackface in an attempt to “show solidarity” with the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the death of George Floyd, as nationwide protests and riots across the country.

To show support for the Black Lives Matters movement, social media users began sharing images of black squares across the #BlackLivesMatter and #BLM hashtags on multiple platforms, in many cases preventing information about protests and organizational donations from being seen.

An Instagram post inviting people to “settle their beefs” in downtown Detroit Wednesday led to police detaining 40 people.

“The Radical Left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “The Administration is working to remedy this illegal situation.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) ranted that elected officials are not doing enough to provide economic relief to the American people as she made margaritas during an Instagram Live on Friday.

A brutal assault by Hong Kong police against protesters and bystanders at the Prince Edward station of Hong Kong’s MTR rail system on August 31, 2019, was one of the milestone events of the protest movement.

Plus-size model Ashley Graham has shared with the world what her new life as a mom is like by uploading a photo of herself eating carrots while also pumping breast milk for her baby.

A recent report outlines how a secretive company named Banjo allegedly employed similar methods to Cambridge Analytica to scrape the personal data of social media users using fake apps offered by a shadowy company it controlled, “Pink Unicorn Labs.”

Multibillionaire Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign is bankrolling hundreds of Californians to post positive endorsements of him on social media, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.

Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg has reportedly contracted internet meme-makers and marketers with more than 60 million followers in total to post sponsored content on Instagram promoting his campaign. According to one of the marketers involved, the memes’ engagement “came from people being confused whether or not it was real.”

French teenager Mila, a 16-year-old who received a torrent of abuse and death threats after she had made anti-Islam statements on social media, said this week that she did not regret her choice of words.

A new report claims that teenagers have discovered how to use group accounts to flood Facebook’s Instagram platform with user data that can’t be linked to any one person. 

The woman who decided to charge the field in a bikini during the Super Bowl says she has “no regrets,” despite being arrested for her actions.

French prosecutors have dropped a potential hate crime case against a French teen named Mila who received death threats after she criticised Islam online.

Perhaps the least surprising news of 2020, social media stars are leveraging China’s coronavirus for relevancy.

Facebook is reportedly adding “fact check” labels to a meme about Die Hard over Christmas, apparently due to a year-old Snopes article.

Facebook-owned Instagram is “fact-checking” satirical posts and memes on the platform via its third-party fact-checkers, and filtering them from hashtag and “explore” results.

Four vape companies were banned from posting on Instagram by an advertising organization, which told the corporations that posts featuring nicotine-containing e-cigarettes “should not be made from Instagram in future” unless the models promoting the e-cigarettes appear to be at least 25 or older.

Instagram is rolling out a new AI tool that will supposedly detect whether someone has captioned their Instagram post with “offensive” content. The social media platform says that the tool, which is meant for tackling online bullying, will suggest that users “reconsider” their choice in words if Instagram’s AI has detected offensive language.

A former bank employee from Charlotte, North Carolina, was busted after he allegedly stole $88,000 from his bank’s vault, prosecutors said.

Facebook is considering introducing a feature already in effect on Instagram that will allow users to secretly ban comments from selected users without their knowledge, effectively “shadowbanning” their responses to posts.

Oscar-winning actress Renée Zellweger says she has not joined Instagram, or any other social media platforms for that matter, because she feels “uncomfortable” with sharing her private life in such an immediate, public way. During a roundtable interview alongside Oscar-winning actress

A high school football coach in North Carolina has resigned from his position, after an Instagram video surfaced in which he made racist comments.

A pair of Instagram models who pulled their shirts up and flashed Astros pitcher Gerritt Cole during Game 5 of the World Series, claim they have been banned indefinitely by Major League Baseball.

Facebook-owned social media platform Instagram has expanded its ban on graphic self-harm and suicide-related imagery to include cartoons and memes.

Adam Mosseri, head of Facebook-owned Instagram, defended the social network’s decision to include Breitbart News among 200 other trusted sources on the platform’s soon-to-be-released News Tab.

Russian Instagram star Kirill “Bazooka Arms” Tereshin finally tested his mettle in the ring, but his bazookas seemed to misfire in his MMA debut.

Facebook’s new private messaging app requests 24/7 access to users’ location, battery, workout data, and more, demonstrating that Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe have a very different definition of privacy than their users.

A woman climbed over a safety enclosure at the Bronx Zoo and appeared to taunt a lion in one of the exhibits, according to the zoo and a video of the incident.

Two families in Cincinnati, Ohio, have raised thousands of dollars for a children’s hospital after a photo of their kids’ lemonade stand went viral online.

Technology companies’s political censorship is “the greatest threat to free speech and our democracy today,” wrote Donald Trump Jr.

Republican congressional candidate and U.S. Air Force veteran Anna Paulina Luna says censorship on Facebook-owned Instagram has hampered her campaign’s ability to collect donations.

President Donald Trump used part of his speech before the United Nations Tuesday to warn of the growing accumulation of power by big tech companies.

A recent report from BuzzFeed News reveals that while Facebook claims that it helps individuals with opioid addictions, hashtags on the Facebook-owned Instagram platform related to addictions are filled with drug dealers offering their services.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) challenged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Thursday to address political censorship on his platforms and open up Facebook to increased competition. Zuckerberg declined.

Facebook-owned social media platform Instagram recently announced that posts promoting weight loss products and cosmetic procedures will soon be hidden from users under 18.