Meta expands Instagram’s School Partnership Program in the US
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Instagram is formalizing itself as school infrastructure — clubs, sports, and events now live on Meta rails. Districts and youth brands should assume student communication is de facto platform-mediated and plan governance, crisis comms, and measurement around that reality.
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