Pictures on Instagram can spread further than words

Published Mon, Dec 18, 2017 · 09:50 PM

    San Francisco

    THE enduring popularity of a provocative post on Instagram, created by a company with connections to the Kremlin, demonstrates why fighting propaganda on social media will be an uphill battle.

    The photograph in the post, of a smiling woman wearing a black hijab, seems innocent. But the text around it was crafted to push buttons. This is a woman, readers are warned, who hates everything from Jews and Christians to lesbians and wine - yet she "complains about Islamophobia".