Discovering that someone has created a fake social media profile using your name or photos is a deeply unsettling experience. The four major platforms—Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X—explicitly prohibit impersonation and provide dedicated reporting channels, with three of them allowing reports even without an account. In Spain, creating a fake profile with another person’s image … Read more
A private account narrows visibility; it does not erase you. Instagram and TikTok offer a single toggle, Facebook demands post-by-post audience management, and all three leave a public-facing core that anyone can see — even without logging in. Instagram and TikTok: one private-account switch; Facebook relies on per-post audiences and a bulk “Limit Past Posts” … Read more
On 23 October, Instagram’s App Store page added Apple TV through a separate tvOS build, version 66.0. It is free and requires tvOS 26.0 or later. The same version and requirement appeared in Spain and seven other stores checked: the UK, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, Japan and India. Meta has never published a country list; … Read more
Meta has started rolling out Your Algorithm on Facebook, a feature that lets users describe in their own words what they want to see more or less of across the Feed and Reels. Announced on 13 October 2026, the tool marks the first time the platform’s core ranking system accepts written, natural-language instructions instead of … Read more
Higgsfield is betting that the next generation of AI influencers will not look human at all. On October 7, 2026, the AI video startup updated its synthetic-persona tool so users can insert a custom character into footage that already exists. The look it encourages is deliberately strange: geometric haircuts, elongated necks and exaggerated proportions no … Read more
Meta has deployed a new layer of artificial intelligence aimed at a stubborn loophole in its advertising machine: campaigns that look entirely harmless but exist only to funnel users toward child sexual abuse material hosted off its platforms. Instead of hunting explicit imagery — a job its hash-matching systems have handled since 2011 — the … Read more