Instagram’s Visual Role In Disseminating Misinformation (During The 2016 Election, And Still Ongoing)

The platform is larger than Twitter and Snapchat combined, and propagandists find the visual appeal of memes wonderfully (and sickeningly) useful. “‘For sowing division and finding wedge issues, Instagram is an ideal visual meme broadcast factory,’ said Jonathan Albright, research director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, who examined the data.”