Instagram NFTs coming? Mark Zuckerberg explains

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Mark Zuckerberg, speaking at the SXSW Conference and Festivals in Austin, Texas, has confirmed that NFTs or nonfungible tokens are coming to Instagram, Engadget’s Karissa Bell reports.

The founder and CEO of the re-named Meta Platforms said the company was working to bring NFTs to Instagram “in the near term.”

As for the specific timing of the capability, Zuckerberg added, “I’m not ready to kind of announce exactly what that’s going to be today.”

(Reuters) -Russian tech entrepreneurs are set to launch a picture-sharing application on the domestic market to help fill the void left by Instagram, which the authorities blocked this week.

The new service, known as Rossgram, will launch on March 28 and have additional functions such as crowdfunding and paid access for some content, its website said on Wednesday.

"My partner Kirill Filimonov and our group of developers were already ready for this turn of events and decided not to miss the opportunity to create a Russian analogue of a popular social network beloved by our compatriots," Alexander Zobov, the initiative's public relations director, wrote on the VKontakte social network.

Russian state communications regulator Roskomnadzor blocked access to Instagram from Monday after its U.S. owner Meta Platforms said last week it would allow social media users in Ukraine to post messages such as "Death to the Russian invaders".

Meta, which also owns Facebook, said the temporary change in its hate speech policy only applied to Ukraine after Russia's invasion, saying it would be wrong to prevent Ukrainians "expressing their resistance and fury at the invading military forces".

Meta said on Sunday it was narrowing its content moderation policy for Ukraine to prohibit calls for the death of a