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The project, titled "2012 Unfiltered," aims to cut through political rhetoric about the state of the U.S. economy through visual evidence. Photos tagged with #econdebate in Instagram captions will be added to a blog on washingtonpost.com.
It's an interesting use of consumer technology and crowdsourcing. However, we wonder if the people best positioned to participate in this project are in possession of iPhones.
In the coming weeks, The Washington Post plans to use Q&A site Quora to crowdsource questions about the 2012 campaigns for reporters to answer.