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How Instagram’s TikTok Envy Finally Backfired
By Kaya Yurieff · Aug. 15, 2022 6:00 AM PDT
Last month, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner and other influencers stirred up a public relations firestorm for Instagram, complaining to their hundreds of millions of followers about the app's recent attempts to mimic TikTok. Those efforts were just part of a broader internal effort to take on the Chinese short-form video app, though. The Information has learned that recent tests of changes to...