Instagram accounts of independent media and organizations found themselves under a new wave of bot followers on October 20, five days before the elections. This is the second such wave since the beginning of the election campaign.
Kompas-info's Instagram profile was followed by more than 1.500 accounts in just 15 minutes. Similar bot attacks were recorded in the previous days on the profiles of Masina, photojournalist Gavrilo Andrić and activist Jelena Riznić.
About 10.000 accounts followed the Instagram profile of the Mašina portal, which claims that it is a bot attack. The media say that the attack is still ongoing and that it is not known whether the account will be taken down.
U.S. tech company Meta said four U.S. states are asking it to pay a total of $1,4 trillion because it designed platforms to encourage addiction in children.
Why is it so hard to put down your phone and stop endless scrolling? Scientists warn that social network algorithms use the way the human brain works, while the development of artificial intelligence could make content even more attractive and harder to resist
The Instagram accounts nova.rs_portal, nova.rs_showbiz and nova.rs_sport today, as well as the private account of the page administrator, received a notification today that the account has been suspended for 180 days. In the past period, several media channels as well as accounts serving citizens for timely and truthful information were exposed to massive bot attacks.
Under-16s in Australia will be banned from accessing social media from today, with tech companies taking responsibility. What consequences will all this have for young people?
The official Instagram account of the "Go-Change" movement, with more than 336.000 followers, was shut down this morning without any warning. The movement says that this is part of the regime's broader strategy to silence critical voices, especially at a time of mass student and civil protests.
The accounts of students of certain blocked faculties suddenly recorded a huge number of new, phantom followers, so they were suspended. Is this a new type of bot vs student fight?
On his Instagram profile, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, tells you the story of a young rebel and a wise old man accompanied by appropriate illustrations and animation. He addressed the "blockaders-terrorists" as a child who broke a school window, so the good uncle put them on his knee to teach them a life lesson
"Brainrot" content on social media, like an AI-generated shark singing "trallalero trallala", is not just another chaotic trend, but an ironic response of the youth to the serious world they live in. Although these mimes seem gibberish to the elderly, they form a new kind of common language among teenagers
"Aleksandar Vučić violated the guidelines of the Meta platform", stated the Eco Watch movement in a call to citizens to report the profile of the President of Serbia on Instagram.
While Serbia is boiling over, President Aleksandar Vučić continues to take care of the common man and selflessly posts everything on Instagram
Due to the physical attack on MS (78) on the street, the police detained the suspect SV (36). The elderly man was transported to the Emergency Center, while the attacker was detained for 48 hours
Instagram is introducing stricter protection, so the new rules will limit the content and privacy of teenage accounts with mandatory parental approval
Seventeen days of waiting for childbirth, complications, falsified reports and disinterested doctors waiting for bribes... The confessions of mothers from Serbia, whose children will bear the consequences for life, contain serious accusations. Three mothers speak for "Vreme"
Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, changed its privacy policy at the end of June. Users from the countries of the Western Balkans are not informed that Meta collects their data for the purpose of developing artificial intelligence tools
Instragram blocked expressions of condolence after the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, after which Turkey blocked Instagram. The escalation of the conflict in the Middle East is entering a new phase
At the summit of the North Atlantic Alliance in Washington, they discussed global war and peace, primarily how to help Ukraine resist the invasion of Russia. The younger audience, mostly uninterested and uninformed about NATO, could follow the summit on Instagram and Tik Tok this time.
The author of the show "Something different" Hana Adrović tries to respond to the digital violence she has suffered for years with the book "Answer". For Vreme, she tells why she wrote the book and how she met one of the commentators who harassed her
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has the most Instagram followers of any European head of state, including monarchs. Vučić is the most popular in the Balkans
With numerous calls to action, so-called "challenges", which are used for entertainment on social networks, predators create mass photo albums of children of all ages.
According to unofficial information shared on the "X" network, there has been a crash on Meta's servers
On Monday, the President of Serbia addressed those who want to hear him for the fourth time in two days, this time on Instagram. He once again had the need to emphasize how brave he is, and there was also talk of foreign mentors of "thugs and abusers".
Serbia cannot be brought down with lies, that's why I am sure that work and results will always win, concluded Aleksandar Vučić
Dozens of US states have sued Meta and Instagram, alleging that they are contributing to the mental health crisis among young people through the addiction caused by their social media platforms, Voice of America reports.
