The Government Has an Instagram Problem

Social media connects us to our officials, but much of what they say will be lost to history

Alex Howard
GEN
Published in
7 min readDec 21, 2018

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Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images

There have always been stories left untold in Washington, but the ubiquity of social media is creating a new void in our collective memories. The digital records created by today’s politicians may go missing unless our institutions undergo a…

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Alex Howard
GEN
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Dad, writer, citizen, chef, cyclist, skeptical optimist, cereal dilettante. Open government advocate at E-PluribusUnum.org.