Reports: Facebook is disabling some features on Instagram and Messenger

 

The social networking site still faces major problems related to privacy and monopoly and the exploitation of its dominant position on the market for social networking applications, and in some regions of the world, Facebook is finally succumbing to the strong pressures on it, which is what happened in Europe, for example.

And the media indicated that the social networking site Facebook decided to disable a number of features on its application for pictures and short videos Instagram, then its application for chatting and instant messaging Facebook Messenger, on European soil and that on a temporary basis according to the same reports, based on a new decision from the company In order to respect European laws and rules regarding this geographical area.

Users of the Instagram and Facebook Messenger applications in Europe have begun to receive messages on the two applications telling them that a number of features have become unavailable on these two applications for European users, without specifying what these features are, but sources talk about that it is related to the polls feature on Messenger and Instagram as well as stickers that the user can post on Instagram or customize the conversation on Messenger.

It is known that the European Union has begun to incorporate new laws for the protection of personal data for users, which has put technology companies, led by Facebook, in a difficult position in order to harmonize their applications with the new laws, so Facebook indicates that this blocking will be temporary.