UPDATE at 5 PM PT:  It looks like Instagram is mostly back online for users. The site Down Detector shows the spike in complaints of no service has dropped. There has been no word from the company on what caused the outage, which caused upsets among influencers around the world. UPDATED with company statement, some ser…

Jussie Smollett has returned to Instagram with his first post since January, a day before he claimed he was the victim of a hate crime. The Empire actor ended his social media silence Monday with a Pride Month message captioned: “So much PRIDE.” The post included video of a speech given by Choir Boy playwright Tarell…

The world came to a standstill Monday when people reached for their phone and were unable to endlessly scroll through their Instagram feed. The popular photo app has experienced outages across the world starting late last night. Users started experiencing issues with Instagram at 11:30 pm ET and they were reported…

ABC’s announcement Sunday that it would not renew Whiskey Cavalier for a second season left fans and some of the show’s cast devastated. The freshman series stars Scandal's Scott Foley and The Walking Dead's Lauren Cohan as globetrotting secret agents. Foley, who plays FBI Special Agent Will Chase and serves as a…

United Artists Releasing will offer exclusive early access to Annapurna's Booksmart, director Olivia Wilde's critically acclaimed film, exclusively to its Instagram community. It will mark the first time that Instagram has promoted a movie sneaks program, and the company became excited about the pic after UA screened B…

Joker’s Wild game show host, dinner party colleague of Martha Stewart, frequent film actor and rapper Snoop Dogg has issued an Instagram post decrying the ban of Louis Farrakhan from Facebook and Instagram. Farrakhan, the controversial Nation of Islam minister, was among several conservative voices banned from the…

In the wake of Facebook’s new policy that bans certain conservative voices from the platform, President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that he will “monitor” social media sites for “censorship of “AMERICAN CITIZENS.” The President, who has met with social media leaders in the past over such practices as “shadow banning&#8221…

Desperate for some good press, Facebook announced Thursday it had designated Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, and other right-wing extremists as "dangerous" and would jettison them from Facebook and Instagram, which is owned by the social media giant. Playing catch-up with other platforms, Facebook added to its banned…

Facebook now says millions of Instagram users' passwords were accidentally stored in a readable format on its servers, not tens of thousands as it initially thought. Facebook revealed the new information in an updated blog post Thursday morning. “Since this post was published, we discovered additional logs of…

Hugh Jackman today backed up his musical memory boasting by demonstrating the rapid-fire speech-song number from The Music Man that he learned at grammar school – skills that could hold him in good stead when he stars in the Broadway revival next year. (Watch the video below.) Last week, when producer Scott Rudin…

Mocked mercilessly on social media, actress Felicity Huffman today deleted her Instagram and Twitter accounts. The former Desperate Housewives star is out on $250,000 bail for her alleged involvement in a college admissions cheating scandal. Huffman used the social media accounts mostly for inspirational posts, and…

UPDATE, 8:15 PM Pacific: Facebook appears to be up and running again for most users after an eight-hour outage. However, its Instagram and Whatsapp services are still having problems. Service was restored for most users by early evening, with only scattered outages still reported on Twitter, the social media service…