Business and creator accounts can now schedule posts up to 75 days out in the app itself. Scheduling tends to be the number one feature people managing social accounts ask for—as they don’t really want to be working on Christmas just to post that cute Reel they recorded weeks ago. Hopefully one day this feature will arrive for the rest of us.
When you block someone, you can now block all accounts they currently have (or may make in the future). Meta says this should lead to just a bit less manual blocking... like, say, 4 million fewer manual blocks per week.
Instagram’s word blocking feature is also getting updated to catch more intentional m1ssp3llings of words meant to avoid filtering. Plus, they’ll catch story replies now, too.
Forbes has done a deep-dive into the sometimes explicit and disturbing Facebook and Instagram ads for erotic fiction apps, and the connections those companies have to ByteDance and Tencent.
The piece also looks into how Meta’s failing to uphold its guidelines. Some of the examples in the report are very disturbing, and it’s hard to believe they were ever allowed to run.
