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• Instagram adds tool for users to flag false information

  Instagram is adding an option for users to report posts they think are false, the company announced on Thursday, as the Facebook-owned photo-sharing site tries to stem misinformation and other abuses on its platform.

• Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp suffer outages

  Facebook said it restored services on Sunday after some users could not access its social networking site, photo-sharing network Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp.

• Facebook blames ‘server configuration’ change for outage

  Facebook says that a major outage across its family of social networking services was the result of internal problems at the company rather than a BGP route leak at a network operator.

• Facebook CEO says future lies in ‘private, encrypted services’

  Facebook founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg says the future of social networking isn’t in “open platforms” but in private and secure intimate communications. The CEO said that increasingly people want to be able to connect in the “digital equivalent” of their living room.

• Facebook ‘revenge porn’ pilot proceeds despite concerns

  Facebook says it is proceeding with its controversial ‘revenge porn’ prevention pilot, despite the slew of concerns from security experts and victim advocates.

• Instagram finally lets you do the switcheroo between accounts

  Social media managers, and anyone else who juggles more than one Instagram account, are celebrating the small pleasure this week of now being able to switch between accounts without logging out first.

• Facebook coughs up $19bn to buy WhatsApp, draw younger users

  Facebook may be shelling out $19 billion in cash and stock for the messaging company WhatsApp to stanch the departure of younger users from the social network.

• One year under Mayer, Yahoo no longer 'dead company walking'

  After a year with Marissa Mayer at the helm, Yahoo is no longer seen as a 'dead company walking,' according to one analyst.

Whitepapers about Instagram

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