Sarah Frier
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The Inside Story of Instagram
Simon & Schuster, 2020
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Instagram began as a place for artistic expression, but Facebook’s acquisition led to immense changes and corporate turmoil.
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Tech journalist Sarah Frier’s profile of Instagram reveals how its idealistic co-founders kept believing their app could improve the world, even as users posted drug deals and suicides. Facebook’s purchase of Instagram was a tech-sector game changer. But the greater Instagram’s success became, the more Mark Zuckerberg saw it as a rival. Years of infighting led the co-founders to depart. Their dream soured in the face of corporate battles and a dark online reality of illegal activity and fake information from fake accounts.
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About the Author
Bloomberg News reporter Sarah Frier has won numerous awards for her articles on the business processes and societal effects of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.
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