The head of Instagram Adam Masari made a video a couple weeks ago where he said We're hearing a lot of concerns from all of you. Video is kind of where social media is heading if you look at what people like and consume and view on instagram That's also shifting more and more to video over time Even when people say that they prefer photo if he assured users that Instagram will never just you know forget about photo It's part of our heritage.
If you think Instagram sucks now, it’s by design. Vox's Rebecca Jennings and Platformer's Casey Newton explain.
This episode was produced by Victoria Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Hady Mawajdeh and Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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