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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms underscored its commitment to the Metaverse, announcing that its old familiar stock symbol FB – for Facebook, the company's old name – will change to META on June 9. Shares of the company that also owns Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp said the new Nasdaq ticker "aligns with the…

Kanye West has been suspended from posting to Instagram for the next 24 hours, a Meta spokesperson confirmed to Deadline tonight. The action comes after a series of posts aimed at ex-wife Kim Kardashian, her boyfriend Pete Davidson, comedian D.L. Hughley and, most recently, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah. Noah…

Instagram has been banned in Russia by government regulators after parent Meta Platforms eased rules in Ukraine banning violent content on the social network. Generally, major tech platforms have clear-cut policies against violent content. Meta has temporarily eased the anti-violence provision, backing it with…

UPDATE: Maksim Chmerkovskiy’s 48-hour, 6,000-plus mile journey from war-torn Kyiv to Los Angeles ended today when he was greeted at LAX by wife and fellow Dancing With the Stars pro Peta Murgatroyd. A crush of photographers was on hand as he and Murgatroyd found each other in the baggage area and shared a long…

Where’s the beef? It’s on Kanye West’s Instagram, where the erratic hip-hop star today posted a list of the numerous people with whom he has had issues over the years. Much like former President Richard Nixon’s famed “Enemies List,” Kanye’s lengthy schedule is apparently a work in progress. The usual suspects are…

A final message from Betty White has been posted to Instagram, thanking supporters of “The Betty White Challenge,” which asked fans to donate to animal welfare charities on what would have been her 100th birthday on Jan. 17. White died at age 99 on Dec. 31, 2021, but fans apparently have honored her final wish to…

John Mayer and Jeff Ross remembered the late Bob Saget as they performed one final task for their friend – retrieving his car at Los Angeles International airport. The two posted an Instagram video Wednesday of their short road trip, which came three days after Saget’s unexpected death in Orlando at the Ritz-Carlton…

Rosario Dawson and Vanessa Hudgens will announce nominees Wednesday morning for the 28th annual SAG Awards, with the online-only ceremony kicking off at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT on Instagram Live. The noms are being unveiled exclusively Instagram for a second year in a row, at @sagawards and @vanessahudgens. Ten minutes…

Brian May, lead guitarist for Queen, revealed he has tested positive for Covid. An Instagram post by the musician pictured what he called the “dreaded double red line” on a test device, indicating a positive result. (See the post below.) “Yep,” he wrote. “The shocking day finally came for me. The dreaded double red…

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri received a broadside of complaints before a Senate committee on Wednesday over what lawmakers see as the company’s lack of action to protect teens using its platform. The Meta-owned site, along with other popular platforms like TikTok and Snapchat, have been at the center of lawmakers…

Travis Scott, the rapper and organizer who attached his name to the Astroworld Festival in Houston, has spoken out again about the tragic incident that claimed eight people’s lives and injured hundreds. Scott gave his first on-camera statement in a video posted to his Instagram account late Saturday night. “I’m…

Joe Exotic, the Tiger King star who is incarcerated in a Texas federal prison for his part in a murder-for-hire plot, is asking for a compassionate release because of aggressive prostate cancer. Exotic (real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage) was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in federal prison after his conviction…