This grew to 150 million in August 2011, and by June 2013, there were over 16 billion photos on the service.
With the addition of Facebook fact-checking program came the use of image matching technology to find further instances of misinformation.
Fact checking On December 16, 2019, announced it would expand its fact checking programs towards Instagram, by using third-party fact-checkers organizations false information is able to be identified, reviewed and labeled as false information.