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Instagram’s new Pixel effect uses Meta AI to blur anyone you describe in a text prompt. Instagram pitched it at relationship soft launches, and that framing is exactly what set the backlash off.

For $3.99 a month, Instagram Plus shows you how many times each person rewatched your story. The same subscription lets people watch your story without appearing at all. Both features are in the same app, and they quietly cancel each other out.

Instagram’s Following feed strips out the recommendations and shows only accounts you follow. It has existed for years, and it will not stay switched on. Australia wants to force the issue, and Adam Mosseri is arguing the other way.

California signed twelve child safety bills on September 10, including civil penalties of up to $1 million per child injured and a ban on algorithmic feeds for users under 16. The penalty is not the interesting part. The venue is.