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Just about 25 minutes before he shot a man in Miami-Dade County, an Instagram user known as “Lonboyyy” posted a selfie with the gun he used, according to an arrest warrant released on Tuesday.

A bipartisan group of senators recently introduced legislation aiming to prohibit all children under the age of 13 from using social media.

Social media companies are once again in the spotlight after a bank employee in Louisville, Kentucky, killed five people in a mass shooting and livestreamed the attack on Instagram.

Hilary Swank has given birth to twins — a boy and a girl.

For the first time since being attacked at a LA Fitness in South Florida on March 21, rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine addressed his gym beatdown in a social media post on Friday.

A 25-year-old man stands accused of paying minors for sex in Miami-Dade County and preying on them on Instagram, according to prosecutors with the human trafficking task force.

TikTok says every account held by a user under the age of 18 will have a default 60-minute daily screen time limit in the coming weeks.

The Miami-Dade Police Department arrested a man Tuesday after he allegedly made threats on Instagram to harm officers with the agency, authorities said.

Meta is testing a new subscription service that would let Facebook and Instagram users pay for a verified account.

Video shows a confrontation that ended in a man shot dead in a shopping center parking lot in Homestead.

The Walt Disney World Resort has announced an opening date for TRON Lightcycle at the Magic Kingdom Park.

The public school district in Seattle is suing the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth.

A family member says rapper Theophilus London has been found safe after disappearing for months.

Police are investigating after a man recorded himself unloading a gun from inside a luxury sports car on a South Florida highway Friday evening.

Los Angeles authorities have given a little girl a license to own a unicorn — if she can find one.

Police are informing the public of a “very large snake” that was spotted in Doral on Monday.

Beyoncé has been crowned the most Grammy-nominated person in history — tying her husband and rapper Jay-Z with 88 nominations apiece.

Instagram says its working on an issue that left a seemingly large number of users locked out of their accounts.

The world was shocked to hear the news that beloved actor and comedian, Leslie Jordan, tragically died on Tuesday after reportedly crashing his car in Los Angeles.

In a story published October 13, 2022, about JPMorgan Chase and the rapper formerly known as Kanye West ending their business relationship, The Associated Press misspelled conservative activist Candace Owens' first name as Candice.

Clashes between Iranian security forces and protesters have killed at least nine people since the violence erupted over the weekend.

Iranians are experiencing a widespread internet outage amid days of mass protests against the government.

Irish regulators are slapping Instagram with a big fine after an investigation found the social media platform mishandled teenagers’ personal data.

For years, Miguel and Carlos Cevallos made a living by drawing posters for neighborhood nightclubs, taco trucks and restaurants in Queens, attracting clients by word of mouth.

Facebook parent Meta says it has removed a network of accounts linked to the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group it banned in 2018.

Every once and a while something goes viral on the internet that you truly cannot stop thinking about, and for me, it’s this video of a little boy describing the joys of eating corn on the cob.

Instagram and Facebook have suspended Children's Health Defense for repeated violations of policies on COVID-19 misinformation.

As concerns about social media’s harmful effects on teens continue to rise, platforms from Snapchat to TikTok to Instagram are bolting on new features designed to make their services safer and more age appropriate.

Chrissy Teigen and her husband John Legend are expecting another child nearly two years after the couple suffered a pregnancy loss.

A Baltimore family is suing a Sesame Street-themed amusement park for $25 million in federal court over claims of racial discrimination.

A Sesame Street-themed amusement park has apologized after a viral video appearing to show a costumed character waving off two 6-year-old Black girls at a parade outside Philadelphia.

Actress Lindsay Lohan is celebrating her 36th birthday on Saturday as a married woman.

A man who was spotted sacrificing animals on the beach in Virginia Key this week received a hefty fine from the Miami-Dade Police Department.

Instagram is blocking posts that mention abortion from public view, in some cases requiring users to confirm their age before letting them view posts offering information about the procedure.

Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure.

Instagram is testing new ways to verify the age of people using its service, including a face-scanning artificial intelligence tool, having mutual friends verify their age or uploading an ID.

A 15-year-old posted threats on social media and also told the Monroe County Sheriff he wanted to purchase a real handgun online.

Brandon “Bam” Margera, one of the stars of “Jackass,” left a court-ordered rehabilitation facility on Monday in Delray Beach, police said, according to TMZ and Page Six.

White nationalists and supremacists are building thriving, macho communities across social media platforms like Instagram, Telegram and TikTok.

Britney Spears has married her longtime partner Sam Asghari months after the pop superstar won her freedom from a court conservatorship.

The 18-year-old man who slaughtered 19 children and two teachers in Texas left a digital trail that hinted at what was to come.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads.

A teacher walked out of Miami-Dade County jail on Thursday night. A former student accused Sean David Loret, a Glades Middle School teacher, of romantically pursuing her.

The woman known to British tabloid readers as Wagatha Christie has testified about the sleuthing techniques that led to her nickname.

An award-wining Iranian filmmaker says authorities have raided the offices and homes of several filmmakers and other industry professionals and arrested some of them.

Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer’s search for the jurors who will have to decide if Nikolas Cruz should be killed as a punishment for the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland continued Wednesday.

Meta Platforms Inc., the social media giant formerly known as Facebook, plans to celebrate Earth Day by expanding its offering of fundraising tools and making them more easily available to more than 1.5 million nonprofits on its Facebook and Instagram platforms, including those involved in fighting climate change.

A “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” TV star, a Paralympic swimmer and a self-described “brand king” were among the Instagram and TikTok influencers who were paid by Chinese officials for a discreet campaign that promoted the Beijing Winter Olympics, new Justice Department documents reveal.

Some of China's state media reporters are identifying as travel bloggers and lifestyle influencers on U.S.-owned social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.

Hilaria Baldwin is expecting baby No. 7 with Alec Baldwin.

A Moscow court has banned Facebook and Instagram for what it deemed extremist activity in a case their parent company, Meta.

Timothy Starks, also known as rapper “Baby Cino,” had just celebrated his 20th birthday in January. He described himself as “The Neighborhood Hope Dealer” on Instagram.

Russian regulators said internet users will be blocked from accessing Instagram because it’s being used to call for violence against Russian soldiers.

The family of 13-year-old Nia Whims, who was falsely arrested last year after being impersonated online by someone who posted threatening messages toward her school announced Wednesday that they have filed a lawsuit against Renaissance Charter School, Meta (Facebook) and Instagram.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the number of tourists coming to the Sunshine State in the last quarter of 2021 surpassed the visitor count in the same quarter before the start of the pandemic.

A seventh grader is handcuffed and taken to juvenile detention where she's placed for 14 days for calling in a bomb threat. Turns out, she didn't do it.

Spotify’s popular U.S. podcaster Joe Rogan has apologized after a video compilation surfaced that showed him using a racial slur in clips of episodes over a 12-year span.

Jurors in the upcoming death penalty trial for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be allowed to see his Instagram posts, a judge ruled Monday.

Baby Jonas is here.

The widow and two sisters of a U.S. Marine killed in Afghanistan are suing Alec Baldwin.

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are engaged.

Samantha Bush created the Instagram account @BravoHistorian on a whim, just looking for an outlet to share her opinions about all the ridiculous reality TV shows on the Bravo network.

The head of Instagram, appearing before a Senate panel, met with deep skepticism over new measures the platform is adopting to protect young users nd the company’s commitment to transparency.

Instagram has launched a feature that urges teenagers to take breaks from the photo-sharing platform and announced other tools aimed at protecting young users from harmful content on the Facebook-owned service.

Deputies identified a 12-year-old girl who they say was responsible for a threat on Instagram about a shooting at Deerfield Beach Middle School.

Threats of violence at Miami-Dade County schools have led to the arrest of a 15-year-old student and an increased police presence on some campuses, a school district spokeswoman said Monday morning.

Actress Lindsay Lohan has told her followers on Instagram that she’s engaged.

Submit photos of your holiday lights display and we may show them on TV and social media for all of South Florida to see.

A group of state attorneys general are investigating Instagram and its effects on children and young adults, saying its parent company Facebook — recently renamed Meta Platforms — ignored research about the harms it causes to young people.

The holiday season is full of giving, and Local 10 loves to be in that spirit. Once again, we’ll be spreading joy with our “Secret Santa” giveaway.⁣

Internet giants, including social media apps Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, joined some world leaders to issue a global call to better protect children online at a Paris summit on Thursday.

Crystal Palace player Wilfried Zaha has called on Instagram to take racism more seriously after being targeted with abuse after scoring in a 2-0 win at Manchester City on Saturday.

A South Florida man started an Instagram trend by creating artistic fish out of plastic discarded on the beach. It's become a fun hobby for people who are doing their part to save our oceans.

We’re rolling with joy — it is officially cinnamon roll season at Homestead’s very own Knaus Berry Farm. On Tuesday, the popular bakery and farm reopened for its 65th season.

A day at the beach turned into a proposal for Kourtney Kardashian, who is now engaged to Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker.

TikTok, an app best known for dancing videos with 1 billion users worldwide, has also become a shopping phenomenon.

Singer Adele has been gone from the public spotlight, musically speaking, since after the release of her “25”album in 2015.

When whistleblower Frances Haugen this week revealed internal Facebook studies of the harms its Instagram service can cause, particularly for teenagers, she reinforced concerns about the popular photo-sharing app.

While accusing the giant social network of pursuing profits over safety, a former Facebook data scientist told Congress she believes stricter government oversight could alleviate the dangers the company poses, from harming children to inciting political violence to fueling misinformation.

Senators have fired a barrage of criticism at a Facebook executive over the social-networking giant’s handling of internal research on how its Instagram photo-sharing platform can harm teens.

Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito was found dead at Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest after her family reported her missing on Sept. 11.

Bowing — if only for a moment — to pressure from lawmakers, critics, the media and child development experts, Facebook said Monday it will “pause" its work on a kids' version of its photo-oriented Instagram app.

Instagram is putting a hold on the development of Instagram kids, geared towards children under 13, so it can address concerns about the vulnerability of younger users.

FBI special agents are investigating the death of 22-year-old Gabby Petito and searching for her 23-year-old fiancé, Brian Laundrie, whose parents in Florida’s city of North Port, reported him missing on Sept. 14.

The disappearance and death of Gabby Petito and the police hunt for her boyfriend have generated a whirlwind online.

Miami has just been ranked as the No. 1 city for best nightlife in the United States. And that’s not all — Miami was also ranked as the third best nightlife city in the world. (Take that, Ibiza, Las Vegas, Amsterdam, Cancún, New York, and Chicago.)

Joan MacDonald’s health was in shambles at age 71.

According to Roasty Coffee, Miamians really enjoy coffee, caffeine, and pumpkin spice lattes.

Former “American Idol” contestant Syesha Mercado’s son was “forcefully and legally kidnapped from us by CPS” in March. Now, authorities have seized her newborn daughter.

Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar says society must be alert to the power of algorithms deciding what humans are permitted to see.

A 35-year-old man appeared in Miami-Dade County court on Wednesday to face charges for soliciting a 15-year-old girl for sex on Instagram after officers accused him of preying on her while she was walking her dog at a public park in Miami.

Instagram has apologized for removing the official poster for Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s new film from the social network for showing a nipple, after the poster’s designer complained of censorship.

The made-for-television Tokyo Games have gone viral as athletes have taken to social media and NBC used streaming to reach the public in record-smashing and trailblazing ways.

The made-to-watch Tokyo Games, where pandemic precautions prevent permitting spectators, have become a digital affair more than ever.

In celebration of Miami’s 125th Anniversary, the City of Miami will toast the Magic City with Miami 125, a week-long festival of food, culture, and innovation.

Halsey has something new to sing about: motherhood.

Twitter is disappearing its disappearing tweets, called fleets, after they didn’t catch on.

Guess what? Turns out one of the most beautiful sunsets in the world is right here in the Sunshine State.

The youngest daughter of New York’s governor used a social media post Thursday to share her queer identity and call for allies to speak up against homophobia.

If you post a photo to social media and you don’t know how many people liked it, did you really post it.