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Fashion Should Pay Attention to Instagram’s Content Troubles

Users are complaining about ads and suggested posts as TikTok draws ever more users, threatening Instagram’s fashion supremacy.
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Users are complaining about ads and suggested posts as TikTok draws ever more users, threatening Instagram’s fashion supremacy. (Shutterstock)

I’m not sure when it happened, but I spend more time on TikTok than Instagram now.

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Marc Bain
Marc Bain

Marc Bain is Technology Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. He is based in New York and drives BoF’s coverage of technology and innovation, from start-ups to Big Tech.

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