With apologies to Taylor, who is great, I want to pick at this line of thinking a bit, because i think it's dangerous and simplistic in its own way: https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1083793172520673284 …
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I don't actually think excelling in Instagram 101 should be a requirement for being a politics reporter. They're busy enough as it is.
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Replying to @mccanner
I do think if you're going to report on someone's instagram activity you should probably know what various instagram terms mean
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Replying to @emmastory
two separate things happened here though: a bunch of people maybe hit retweet on something ephemeral, which yes helped it spread because it fed an online narrative, and b, a much much much smaller group of those people actually did report on it.
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