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NASA’s rules for astronaut posting: No TikTok, don’t embarrass us

By Rebecca Heilweil

Instagram’s surprising strategy for bullies: Tell them to be nice

By Shirin Ghaffary

Why the US government wants Facebook to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp

By Rebecca Heilweil

Inside Instagram’s nudity ban

By Delia Paunescu

“Keep that shit on the battlefield”: Beto O’Rourke calls for major gun reform following El Paso and Dayton shootings

By Tara Golshan

Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers”

By Kelsey Piper

Instagram is going to show you even more ads

By Emily Stewart

Facebook bans Alex Jones, Infowars, Louis Farrakhan, and others it deems “dangerous”

By Emily Stewart

Facebook says it stored millions of Instagram passwords unencrypted on its servers

By Kurt Wagner

Instagram just took advantage of Amazon’s biggest weakness

By Jason Del Rey

Instagram will now let you buy products directly inside the app

By Kurt Wagner

Instagram’s founders don’t think breaking up Facebook will fix tech’s problems

By Kurt Wagner

Media startups trying to drive people to their websites are doing it wrong, says Overtime CEO Dan Porter

By Eric Johnson

Mark Zuckerberg believes Facebook’s future is private messaging

By Kurt Wagner

Facebook is still trying to figure out what teens are interested in

By Kurt Wagner

Facebook is in trouble for secretly breaking Apple’s rules. But what it’s doing out in the open is way worse.

By Eric Johnson

Is having the most popular photo on Instagram worth anything? We’re about to find out.

By Kurt Wagner

Instagram got rid of the scrolling feed for some users and people freaked out

By Kurt Wagner

Instagram posts from Russian meddlers played a much bigger role in the 2016 election than we thought

By Kurt Wagner

Framebridge CEO Susan Tynan explains why it’s okay to be analog in a digital world

By Eric Johnson

The big business of being a social media star

By Eric Johnson

Instagram’s leadership overhaul has begun in the wake of its founders’ departure

By Kurt Wagner

Instagram is cracking down on services that sell ‘Likes’ and followers

By Kurt Wagner

The ‘Stories’ product that Facebook copied from Snapchat is now Facebook’s future

By Kurt Wagner

Taking a page from YouTube, Snap VP Nick Bell wants to find the next generation of media stars

By Eric Johnson

Instagram’s Kevin Systrom on leaving Facebook: ‘No one ever leaves a job because everything’s awesome’

By Kurt Wagner

Facebook will soon rely on Instagram for the majority of its ad revenue growth

By Kurt Wagner and Rani Molla

Meet Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s new boss

By Kurt Wagner

Why Snap will get acquired before 2020, probably by Amazon

By Eric Johnson

How Facebook could screw up Instagram

By Dan Frommer

Facebook’s reputation as a good place for founders is suddenly under attack

By Kurt Wagner

Facebook’s recent ‘bear hug’ of Instagram frustrated its independent founders, leading to their exit

By Kurt Wagner

Instagram’s co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, are leaving amid frustrations with parent company Facebook

By Kurt Wagner

Google is following Instagram and Snapchat with a big push into Stories

By Kurt Wagner

Instagram could still develop a new shopping app — but here’s how it’s trying to woo window-shoppers in its current one

By Theodore Schleifer

Four reasons Snap’s stock price is at an all-time low

By Kurt Wagner and Rani Molla

Instagram COO Marne Levine is headed back to Facebook to become one of its top executives

By Kurt Wagner

Teens are hooked on social media. But how does it make them feel about themselves?

By Rani Molla

‘Stories’ was Instagram’s smartest move yet

By Kurt Wagner

Facebook and Instagram are making it easier to spend less time on Facebook and Instagram. But why?

By Kurt Wagner