Now, Meta is making its Reels algorithm tuning feature available to all English users of Instagram globally, along with the ability to highlight their top topics for the coming year.

Previously scraped Instagram user data has resurfaced, enabling realistic phishing and account takeover attempts, underscoring the long-term risks of exposed personal information.

If you go on your Instagram app, go to your “Settings and Activity” page, then select Accounts Center. From there, tap “Password and security” and scroll down to “Security checks.” Tap “Recent emails” to see if Instagram has actually messaged you security and login emails in the past few days.

In an end-of-year message, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that the platform would have to evolve to cope with a coming flood of AI-generated content

Instagram has rolled out Your Algorithm, a new feature that lets users control the kind of content they see on Reels by adding or removing topics, giving people more say over what shows up in their feed.

When Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri looks into the rapidly approaching future of AI-generated content, he sees a massive problem: how to tell authentic media apart from the kind made with AI technology.

Adam Mosseri leads Instagram as the CEO (although he seems to prefer the phrase Head of Instagram) and recently admitted that AI slop is all over our feeds.

In a 2025 year-end post, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri addressed the massive shifts AI is causing in photography, stressing that authenticity will be harder and harder to come by -- and offering thoughts on how creators, camera makers and Instagram itself will need to adapt.