TORONTO Instagram is experiencing a global issue with users uploading and viewing stories following reports that stories were mysteriously disappearing from users’ feeds. A number of users from various countries took to other social media platforms on Thursday to report that their stories had vanished from the popular social media app. “We know that some people are experiencing issues uploading and viewing stories,” an official Instagram account tweeted Thursday afternoon. “This is a widespread global technical issue not related to any particular topic and we’re fixing it right now. We’ll provide an update as soon as we can.”
TORONTO Instagram says it has fixed a problem that saw the removal of multiple posts about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), and other social justice movements from its platform, but the company’s explanation and apology fell short of satisfying some users. The issue came to light on Thursday as people noticed the disappearance of posts that had gone up on Wednesday, May 5, which is the national day of awareness of MMIWG in Canada, also known as Red Dress Day. The day was also recognized this year in the United States as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day.
By Prateek Waghre
On 28th April, reports emerged that Facebook was ‘temporarily hiding’ posts using the hashtag ‘ResignModi’ because ‘some content’ in those posts went against their Community Standards.
This seemed like a rather fitting development in a week where the future of free speech and dissent in India had already managed to capture international attention. MEITY had ordered Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube to remove/withhold 100-odd posts critical of how the Union government is handling COVID-19’s second wave. While Twitter did disclose (as reported by Medianama) that it complied via the Lumen Database, the other platforms have not confirmed whether they received any such requests, nor whether they complied.
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Instagram freaked a whole lot of users out this week when it suddenly - and unintentionally - expanded its test of hidden post like counts to a lot more users.
We ve been testing a new experience to hide likes on Feed posts. We unintentionally added more people to the test today, which was a bug we’re fixing this issue and restoring like counts to those people as soon as possible. Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) March 3, 2021
Instagram has been testing hidden Like counts for some time, and while it has provided some insight into the results it s seen from its experiments, it clearly doesn t yet have all the data that it needs in order to make a call on the viability of the option.