Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s head of product, will likely be appointed by Facebook the popular app’s next chief executive “in the coming days,” according to a report from The Information on Tuesday.
The news comes one day after Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announced their resignation, nearly eight years after launching the company. Systrom had been the company’s CEO while Krieger was its chief technical officer.
“We’re planning on leaving Instagram to explore our curiosity and creativity again,” Systrom said in a statement on Monday. “Building new things requires that we step back, understand what inspires us and match that with what the world needs; that’s what we plan to do.”
A representative for Instagram declined to comment to TheWrap on Mosseri’s potential appointment.
Mosseri is a longtime Facebook employee that worked on projects like News Feed before moving over to Instagram earlier this year. Since buying Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has largely let the pictures-and-video app operate as a standalone company under the social network’s umbrella. But that distance had been narrowed of late, with Facebook working to more closely integrate Instagram in a number of ways. And Mosseri’s recent addition to the Instagram braintrust exacerbated the growing tension by rankling its existing leadership, according to a report by TechCrunch.
Under Systrom and Krieger’s stewardship, Instagram hit 1 billion users earlier this summer.
10 Most Shocking Russian Troll Posts on Facebook and Instagram, From Hillary Clinton to Police Brutality (Photos)
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee on Thursday released more than 3,500 advertisements and posts spread by Russian trolls before and after the 2016 U.S. election. Below is a look at 10 of the most shocking examples that stood out from Congress's reveal.
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Many posts pushed the narrative that Hillary Clinton would confiscate guns if she were elected President.
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This graphic meme painted cops as KKK members attacking a young black child.
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Only "sissies" and other undesirables wouldn't support Donald Trump, many of the memes said.
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President Obama was a "pawn" and "traitor" in the hands of "Arabian Sheikhs," said one 2016 ad.
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The "Black Matters US" page touched on hot button issues like police shootings.
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The "Army of Jesus" page shared a bible verse, along with this meme.
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Russian trolls also used Instagram to spread sponsored political memes.
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The "Blacktivist" page routinely shared memes on Colin Kaepernick and other football players kneeling during the national anthem.
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"Heart of Texas" routinely posted on "Killary Rotten Clinton," and threatened to secede from the union if she won the election.
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The "Being Patriotic" page labeled ex-cons as "Obama voters."
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Congress just released 3,500 posts touching on a myriad of topics
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee on Thursday released more than 3,500 advertisements and posts spread by Russian trolls before and after the 2016 U.S. election. Below is a look at 10 of the most shocking examples that stood out from Congress's reveal.