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Instagram may have started as a photo app where we posted one photo at a time but now the advice is to always go for the carousel, says Jack Appleby:

Carousels are the only content type that gets a second chance on Instagram. That’s an invaluable safety mechanism for your content considering how mindlessly we flick our thumbs through the feeds.

Sounds advice, even though I don’t always practice what I preach in my own Instagram feed. Also, a reminder that it is necessary to follow how the algorithms on social platforms are developing.

The communication landscape is ever changing. The 2025 Digital News Report from the Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism shows that social media is now where most Americans get their news.

For the first time, social media has displaced television as the top way Americans get news. “The proportion accessing news via social media and video networks in the United States (54%) is sharply up,” the report’s authors write, “overtaking both TV news (50%) and news websites/apps (48%) for the first time.”