Facebook Reels is not a second master
Use the same 9:16 file on Facebook Reels and Instagram. Meta AI info still applies. Do not re-generate a cousin clip for Facebook.
Use the same 9:16 file on Facebook Reels and Instagram. Meta AI info still applies. Do not re-generate a cousin clip for Facebook.
Instagram renamed AI creator to AI-generated profile on 31 Aug 2026. Reach drops only if the featured person is AI and unlabeled.
Instagram’s AI-generated profile badge is account-level. Per-Reel AI info is a different switch. Photoreal files can still need both.
Instagram’s 31 Aug 2026 reach cut is for an unlabeled AI person on the profile, not for AI captions, graphics, or ordinary edits.
Self-disclose the post and keep C2PA if you have it. Reels bonuses depend on that disclosure.
Instagram prefers the original upload. Your mirror account is not the discovery surface.
Pick a delivery frame rate on purpose. Interpolation after the fact is a different artifact.
Bad Instagram playback is often encoding. Check fps and codecs before you regenerate the model.
Instagram repost caps exist. Spamming mirrors is how you earn filters, not freedom.
Instagram strips C2PA on upload. Re-export from CapCut often drops it. The platform then guesses.
May 2026 opt-in profile badge is account-level. Post-level AI Info is automatic from C2PA/classifiers. They are two systems.
edit_video at 1:1 takes the most off a 16:9 master. Squaring a miss, or squaring before picture lock, studies a center punch of a take you will replace.
An Instagram feature that auto-enrolled every public account lasted 72 hours. Five checks to run before you build a workflow on a brand-new platform feature.