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“Share Quick Video Updates on Instagram’s New Status Feature”

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Instagram is launching the ability for users to post video Notes, the company announced on Wednesday. Up until now, you could only post text or emojis to your status update. Now, you can post a two-second looping video Note that will be visible to your mutual followers or Close Friends for 24 hours. Another differentiator between video Notes and video Stories is that you can only post content from your front-facing camera when sharing video Notes. Plus, you have to capture the content in the app when posting a video Note, which means that you can’t upload a video from your phone’s camera gallery.

Meta plans to offer its fact-checking program in Threads next year

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With two large-scale elections in the U.S. in India next year, Threads aims to introduce a fact-checking checking program to the social network. Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that the social platform currently matches ratings from Facebook or Instagram to similar content. Separately, Meta shared in a blog post that soon U.S-based Threads users will be able to increase, decrease, or maintain the same level of demotion on fact-checked posts. Meta and Threads haven’t been keen on bolstering news on the platform. And while Threads has stayed away from news until now, with fact-checking programs it will have to get involved.