"The platform is likely where the next great battle against misinformation will be fought, and yet it has largely escaped scrutiny. Part of this is due to its reputation among older users, who generally use it to post personal photos, follow aspirational accounts, and keep in touch with friends. Many teenagers, however, use the platform differently—not only to connect with friends, but to explore their identity, and often to consume information about current events." - very insightful read on how Instagram's use has evolved from being just a platform to share your personal photos/selfies to becoming some sort of information gateway for all sorts of things both good and bad. helps me understand the platform better as well.

“Instagram has the power of Twitter to broadcast out, but the infrastructure of Facebook supporting it,” says Jonathan Albright, a researcher at Columbia University who directs a center on digital forensics. “It has the best of all platforms.” *headline/content is a little fear-mongering like most things from the Atlantic but it's still a good read for those of us who thought the meme wars were over