Facebook has blocked news sharing in Canada rather than pay, saying news holds no economic value to its business
Instagram rolls out broadcast chat feature 'Channels'
The company will also introduce the feature to Messenger and Facebook in the coming months
Published : 17 Feb 2023, 03:53 AM
Updated : 17 Feb 2023, 03:53 AM
Instagram, the social media platform owned by Meta Platforms Inc META.O, is rolling out a broadcast chat feature called Channels, the company's boss Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday.
"I'm starting a channel to share news and updates on all the products and tech we're building at Meta," Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post.
"It will be the place I share Meta product news first."
The company will also introduce the feature to Messenger and Facebook in the coming months.
RELATED STORIES
There were about 12,000 incidents of US users reporting issues with the messaging platform, according to Downdetector
The move comes amid mounting criticism from users about Meta's no-ads subscription service launched in Europe in November
At the peak of the outage, there were more than 550,000 reports of disruptions for Facebook and about 92,000 for Instagram, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com
