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The Candy of The App World: and Annotate Anything That You Find Is Important

Instagram is a photo and video sharing social media app owned by Facebook with over 800 million users. It was created in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger to develop a new social media platform. The app allows users to upload, edit, and share photos and videos publicly or with followers, and to view content from others by tags and locations. Censorship of Instagram has occurred in China, Turkey, and North Korea for various political reasons such as limiting spread of information about protests or incidents.

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The Candy of The App World: and Annotate Anything That You Find Is Important

Instagram is a photo and video sharing social media app owned by Facebook with over 800 million users. It was created in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger to develop a new social media platform. The app allows users to upload, edit, and share photos and videos publicly or with followers, and to view content from others by tags and locations. Censorship of Instagram has occurred in China, Turkey, and North Korea for various political reasons such as limiting spread of information about protests or incidents.

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Name __________________________________________________________ 

 
Directions​: Read the passage and answer the questions in complete sentences. Make sure you underline 
and annotate anything that you find is important. 

The Candy of the App World  


 
   
Instagram is an American photo and  1. Why is the title of this article T
​ he 
video-sharing social networking service that  Candy of the App World​? 
is owned by Facebook. There are more than   
800 million users on the app today.  _______________________________________________ 
Instagram was created in October 2010 by   
Mike Kreiger, a software engineer, and Kevin  _______________________________________________ 
 
Systrom, a computer programmer and 
_______________________________________________ 
entrepreneur. They worked together to give 
 
rise to the new ​platform​ of social media.  
2. What does it mean to “give rise to” in 
This app allows users to upload 
paragraph 1? 
photos and videos to the service, which can   
be edited with various filters. An account’s  _______________________________________________ 
posts can be shared publicly or with   
pre-approved followers. Users can browse  _______________________________________________ 
other users’ c​ ontent​ by tags and locations,   
and view trending content. Users can  _______________________________________________ 
furthermore like photos and follow other   
users to add their content to a feed.   3. Why did Instagram need two creators? 
Censorship of instagram has   
occurred​ in three different countries: China,  _______________________________________________ 
Turkey and North Korea. Instagram has   
been blocked by China following the 2014  _______________________________________________ 
Hong Kong protests because a lot of videos   
and photos are posted. However, Hong  _______________________________________________ 
Kong was not affected as they maintain a   
4. Why might someone want to make 
special administrative region of China.  
their posts public? 
Turkey is additionally known for its 
 
authoritarian​ Internet censorship and 
_______________________________________________ 
periodically blocks social media including 
 
Instagram.   _______________________________________________ 
Lastly, North Korea authorities   
blocked Instagram to prevent photos of a  _______________________________________________ 
specific incident from being spread around   
the country. This incident was a fire that  5. Why would China block Instagram 
happened in the Koryo Hotel in 2015. The  after the Hong Kong protests in 2014? 
North Korean government is known for   
limiting internet accessibility. Internet is  _______________________________________________ 
available by permission, but strictly limited   
and primarily used s ​ olely​ for government  _______________________________________________ 
purposes.   
  _______________________________________________ 

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