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Hey everyone. Today, we're bringing you one of my favorite episodes from our back catalog.

This story is about an enterprising group of teenagers who are fighting for their right to use social media without getting influenced by a bunch of targeted ads.

Check it out.

Samantha Mosley is 17 years old.

She lives in Maryland, where she's a junior in high school.

And, like most teenagers, she spends a certain amount of time on Instagram.

I'd say like about five hours a week.

There are some people who I know personally and they use Instagram a lot more than I do, but I prefer to keep my social media time down.

I tend to post about once every two months. I try to keep it limited to like prom, homecoming, fancy events like that, so that when someone looks up my name, they

see nice, good pictures of me instead of some not as high quality photos.

Samantha has multiple Instagram accounts, about five, she says, and they each serve a purpose.

There's a whole wide variety, because I have a different account for each audience and

different interests for each audience.

So like on my main account, I'm more focused on like my high school, the people around me

all just like their photos, post things related to my high school.

And then another account is for more engineering

and technology. And on that account, I'll look at different robotics projects, girls who code, things like that.

But unlike most of her peers, Samantha and a group of her friends are intentionally messing with Instagram to prevent the platform from knowing too much

about them. We want Instagram to have a harder time tracking us, what we're doing, who we are,

where we live, different things like that. Today on the show, how a group of teens are freeing

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