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Instagram launches a competitor to CapCut: A new video editing app called Edits

Instagram unveils Edits – an advanced editing app designed to compete with CapCut, just as ByteDance's video app faces bans in the US. So, when can you download it?

By YINON BEN SHUSHAN
29/01/2025

‘Hate can be an addiction’: Ex-neo-Nazi, Montana Tucker take to the streets

Former neo-Nazi Arno Michaelis and social media activist Montana Tucker took to the Santa Monica Pier on Holocaust Remembrance Day to talk to people about antisemitism and the Holocaust.

  Kfir and Ariel Bibas, who were murdered in captivity by Hamas in November 2023.

'We hold on to hope,' Bibas family says ahead of hostage releases

The family requested that people "respect Shiri, Yarden, Ariel, and Kfir, as well as the entire family, and refrain from spreading rumors or speculations that unsettle us."

 Emily Damari (L) with her mother, Mandy, January 20, 2025.

Emily Damari 'the happiest girl in the world' after returning home, mother says

Emily is "doing much better than any of us could ever have anticipated," her mother Mandy said.

20/01/2025

Meta drops restrictions which protected LGBTQ community

Meta's global policy chief stated, "It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress but not on our platforms."

'Israel must go': Israeli attacked in Berlin over Israeli-Palestinian peace pin

“Israel must go,” one of the attackers reportedly shouted.

WhatsApp goes down, users report

The messaging had previously appeared to be down for worldwide users in April. 

Gen Z and the intifada: social media’s role in shaping anti-Israel narratives

How TikTok and Instagram are shaping Gen Z’s sympathy for Palestine and igniting campus protests.

By MOLLY SEGHI
11/12/2024

Oxford University Press announces Word of the Year 2024

‘Brain rot’ is a noun defined as, “Supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of overconsumption of material."

Instagram unveils three new direct message features

The messaging app adds three new tools to upgrade direct messages (DMs). Features include adding nicknames and using new stickers.

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