Instagram on Tuesday said it’s rolling out auto-generated captions for videos on its Feed. The feature will be on by default for creators. Instagram says it’s working on rolling out auto-captions in more languages in the coming months. It’s one of many tech companiesstepping up its accessibility efforts. In October, YouTube added a feature that lets all creatorsuse auto captions for livestreams. And following backlash from disability advocates, Twitter finally turned onautomated captions for voice tweetsin July....

The current Home experience, which displays content ranked by what the algorithms determine you’d want to see most, is still the default for Instagram feeds. An Instagram spokesperson told CNET via email that “people have a better experience on Instagram with a ranked feed, so we won’t be defaulting people into a chronological feed.”

It’s one of the service’slatest safety guardrailsmeant to help protect teens against financial sextortion.

To create Group Profiles, people can hit the Plus icon and select Group Profiles to begin.

At the very least, she’s won the hearts and minds of the locals. Not so with Ocasio-Cortez. The following day she was duly presented with a can of Irn-Bru by Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. She compared it to the Latin American soda Cola Champagne. Climate justice advocacy groups have characterized this year’s climate COPas exclusionary. “Did you know the US had a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women?...

Instagram experienced an outage across the globe, tens of thousands ofcomplaints on Down Detectorand Twitter on Thursday showed. “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Instagram. Instagram parent Meta didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on what caused the outage.

Instagramwants to make it simpler to watch videos on its platform. Instagram TV launched as a competitor to YouTube in 2018.

Facebook said on Tuesday that it is launching a tool calledSensitive Content Controlon Instagram. Instagram hasguidelinesthat govern content it recommends to people through places such as Explore. PressAccountand then chooseSensitive Content Control. The feature lets you choose among three options. The Allow option won’t be available to people under 18. People can change their selection at any time, if they are older than 18, Facebook said.

It was only a matter of time before Instagram copied another rival. Developer Alessandro Paluzzi spotted the Instagram feature and tweeted about the experiment on Monday. Instagram has been doubling down on its short-form video feature Reels as it contends with competition from TikTok.

Instagramis building a new feature that would let users customize their feed,according to TechCrunch. So it’s unclear if or when Favorites might show up for everyone. For more about Instagram, check outhow to post to Instagram from your PCandhow to change your Instagram handle.

Accounts sharing this key in of content won’t be recommended in search or other parts of the app. This is a real risk," Instagram head Adam Mosseri said Sunday in a blog post. Barring users from sharing this key in of content could also stigmatize mental health.

Instagram didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

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