The Instagram Forums Where Teens Go to Debate Big Issues

More teenagers are getting their information from so-called flop accounts

Taylor Lorenz
The Atlantic
Published in
7 min readJul 30, 2018

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It’s harder and harder to have an honest debate on the internet. Social-media platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook Groups are rife with trolls; forums are plagued by archaic layouts and spambots. Teenagers who are looking to talk about big…

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