Artists, record labels, and music marketers are creating custom filters to promote songs, as augmented-reality effects take off on social media.

In this generation of instant gratification and technology dependence, beauty culture has become more extreme and unforgiving, causing even its most prominent purveyors to have difficulty keeping up.

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Having trouble accessing augmented reality effects, like filters and avatars, on Instagram and Facebook? There's a reason for that, at least if you're in Illinois and Texas. Meta, the parent company ...

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, disabled certain "augmented reality" effects and filters for Instagram and Facebook users in Texas and Illinois, in response to major lawsuits in those ...

Last week Meta, the social media company formerly known as Facebook, removed some of its augmented reality effects and applications, such as avatars and filters, from Facebook and Instagram in ...

Instagram users in Texas are no longer able to use some of the filters on the app. The change isn’t a glitch, but a deliberate move made by Meta, Instagram’s parent company, after it was sued by the ...

If you've tried to post to your Instagram story or feed and noticed it no longer has all the usual filters, it’s not a glitch: Your Instagram filters really did disappear overnight. Filters are ...

If you’re from Texas or Illinois and love to apply Instagram filters to the photos of your travels or any other event, this may be bad news for you. After being sued by Texas for violating the state’s ...

TYLER, Texas — **EDITOR'S NOTE-- the video attached was produced in February 2021. The article has been updated to reflect a statement from the Communications team from Meta. Instagram users in Texas ...