News | Latest Breaking News Stories & Headlines | RTÉ

Weather Warning

Reels mimic a lot of the features offered by Chinese rival TikTok

Instagram launches TikTok rival 'Reels' in Ireland

Business / 05 Aug

Shares of the world's biggest social network jumped 7% in extended trading on Wall Street

Facebook smashes revenue estimates amid Covid-19

Business / 30 Jul

Stop Hate for Profit grew rapidly in June, resulting in hundreds of firms withdrawing millions of dollars of ad spend from Facebook

Ripples of Facebook ad boycott likely reach Ireland

Business / 11 Jul

Data Protection Commissioner, Helen Dixon

Privacy group takes High Court action against DPC

Business / 06 Jul

Giphy will be integrated into Facebook's Instagram social network

Facebook acquires Giphy for reported $400m

Business / 15 May

Some users said they were unable to post pictures or videos on the company's platforms

Facebook and Instagram experience outages

Business / 28 Nov 19

Pumpkins on the back of a truck during the 'Golden Autumn' gastronomic festival at Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The festival, dedicated to the history of agriculture, takes place from 4-13 October in central Moscow | Image: EPA-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov

RTÉ News on Instagram - Images from around the world

News Lens / 08 Oct 19

Research found that 92% of eight to 13-year-olds have smart devices (Stock image)

Children spend 'equivalent of 61 days a year' online

Science and Technology / 10 Sep 19

Facebook's profit in the second quarter fell 49% from a year ago to $2.6 billion while revenues increased 28% to $16.9 billion

Legal woes dent Facebook profit but revenue grows

Business / 25 Jul 19

Instagram is carrying out the test as it wants followers to focus on photos and videos shares

Instagram tests change to how users see their 'likes'

Business / 17 Jul 19

Social networks are seeking to address hate speech and abusive conduct

Instagram seeks to tackle online bullying

News Lens / 09 Jul 19

Facebook said the "inauthentic" activity originated in Israel and focused on Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Angola, Niger and Tunisia as well as in Latin America and Southeast Asia

Facebook removes 'fake' accounts

Business / 16 May 19

Chris Hughes: "The most problematic aspect of Facebook's power is Mark's unilateral control over speech"

Break up Facebook, says company's co-founder

Business / 10 May 19

A baby lemur tries to get plant outside his enclosure during a sunny day at the Zoo in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia | Image: EPA-EFE/Georgi Licovski

RTÉ News on Instagram: Images from around the world

News Lens / 26 Apr 19

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is focused on building out its privacy-focused vision for the future of social networking

Facebook sets aside $3 billion for privacy penalty

Business / 25 Apr 19

Is Facebook really changing for the better?

World / 06 Apr 19

The ban will apply to both the core Facebook app and Instagram

Facebook to ban white nationalism and separatism

World / 28 Mar 19

Facebook said it was considering whether to refund advertisers for lost exposure due to the problems

Facebook restores services after global outage

Science and Technology / 14 Mar 19

The problem is affecting both Facebook and Instagram

Facebook and Instagram hit with outages

News Lens / 13 Mar 19

Helen Dixon said the largest number of complaints related to the right of access to personal data held by others

Surge in number of data breaches reported in 2018

Ireland / 28 Feb 19

The social media platform said it would not be entirely removing non-graphic self-harm content

Instagram announces ban on graphic images of self-harm

technology / 07 Feb 19

Facebook and Twitter had fewer Irish users during the second half of 2018

Facebook loses in latest social networking survey

Business / 30 Jan 19

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is said to be planning end-to-end encryption on the Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger apps

Facebook is to integrate apps for easier communication

Business / 25 Jan 19

Gigi Wu, a social media star, died after falling into a ravine

Teams attempt to retrieve body of 'Bikini Climber'

Asia / 23 Jan 19

Showing 1 - 25 of 56 stories