Controversy and uncertainty are swirling around the two major image sharing platforms – and Flickr is looking pretty good right now

Many Instagram and Facebook users say they are confused about why they are seeing posts from the president and vice president in their feeds. Here’s what to know.

Users plan week-long boycott of the platform after it announces the removal of fact-checkers and sparks controversy.

Among those is popstar Gracie Abrams, who took to Instagram to reassure her followers. “I had t unfollow @vp and @potus three separate times today because [Meta] kept automatically refollowing the accounts,” she said on Instagram stories. “How curious! Had to block them in order to make sure I am nowhere near that.”

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has offered to pay up to $5,000 to popular creators in the United States to join Facebook and Instagram.The social media giant says those joining from “third-party social apps” will get cash based on “an evaluation of your social presence”.

In the days before TikTok went dark, Instagram and Facebook released a flurry of new features and ran advertisements promoting its platforms as a comparable alternative.

Edits – to rival TikTok amid the chaos of its supposed ban in the United States. However, you’re going to have to wait to use it.

Instagram has introduced major updates, including extending Reels to three minutes, replacing square profile grids with rectangular ones, and showing liked Reels to friends.

Meta hasn't mentioned TikTok by name, but its new "Breakthrough bonus programme" is trying to appeal to creators using its competitors' platforms.

Meta offers TikTok creators financial incentives, longer Reels video durations, and new editing tools to entice them to Instagram and Facebook amidst TikTok's uncertainty in the US. Despite potential resistance due to Meta's perceived political affiliations,

Demi Lovato shared to her Instagram story that she claims to have unfollowed JD Vance on the VP US government official account twice and the platform won’t let her do it, calling it ‘shady business’. Cara Delevingne also posted a screenshot to her story claiming that it’s ‘happening to me’. So what is actually going on?