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On September 14 The Wall Street Journa l published a story to The Facebook Files, which is a series of stories based around an enormous cache of internal Facebook documents leaked to the newspaper. Raychoudhury ignores many of the issues raised in the WSJ piece, including that teens claimed they felt addicted to Instagram.
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But with 100 million daily active users and the launch of Stories (a collection of snaps that can be viewed for 24 hours), a few early adopter nonprofits are experimenting with Snapchat and their efforts are worth watching. The vast majority of nonprofits will find Snapchat challenging.
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