Instagram : from Facebook’s ’best hope’ to Russian propaganda campaign tool
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/18/instagram-facebook-russian-propaganda-ira
The app was ‘perhaps the most effective platform’ for the Russian online propaganda campaign by the Internet Research Agency This January, as Mark Zuckerberg was embarking on his quest to “fix” Facebook, one writer proposed a bold idea : make Facebook more like Instagram, “the Facebook-owned app that isn’t destabilizing society”. Instagram was no panacea, according to the New York Times tech columnist, but the downsides of the largely visual network – making “some of its users feel ugly and (...)
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