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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
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Topic: Instagram

We are now adulting without friends because social media algorithms have taken over

If adulting means remaining trapped in our silos with our gadgets all the time, then we need to perhaps redefine it — as an ability to be complete in oneself.

Not Twitter or Facebook, is Instagram the new safe space for political opinion in India?

While Facebook has over 26 crore users in India and Twitter has 77.5 lakh, Instagram is becoming the social media of choice for young Indians to express their views.

With ‘please unfriend me if you support BJP’, liberals have already lost the fight

No one is born woke, just like no one is born a bigot. And unfriending on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter is just virtue-signalling, it helps no one.

Actor, politician & now painter — Smriti Irani reveals hidden talent on Instagram

Smriti Irani took to Instagram to share a photo where she is working on a painting featuring the Eiffel Tower.

Instagram is more than just pictures, it’s revolutionised consumer culture

In the decade 2010-2019, Instagram has tuned into a multi-million marketing platform that influences consumer spending much more profoundly.

No more likes on Instagram, but it’s not the end of the world for #influencers or brands

In this parallel socio-economic set-up, likes served an alternate currency of social validation — allowing businesses to gauge demand, & influencers to outline scope of popularity.

Brands are bypassing influencers and targeting Gen Z with memes

Companies from Uber to Netflix are laughing at themselves in sponsored memes, or funny vignettes, on Instagram to spread their message.

Amazon, Twitter, Instagram try to clean up social media, but here’s where they went wrong

Instagram has hidden like totals, Twitter allows users to eclipse replies & Amazon is targeting paid fake reviews. But are they really?

Facebook, Instagram pulled millions of posts over child pornography, drug sales, terrorism

The numbers show Facebook is taking these problems more seriously than competitors, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says following the release of a biannual report.

Facebook adds more corporate branding to Instagram, WhatsApp

The branding effort reflects a larger shift happening inside Facebook as CEO Mark Zuckerberg pulls different aspects of the empire closer together.

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.