Political memes have gone mainstream as the distance between the White House and subcultures like 4Chan has closed. President Donald Trump has frequently retweeted his fans’ meme work, #MeToo jumped ...
The Kamala Harris political compass meme uses the traditional grid format but replaces political positions with pieces of Harris quotes. Social media users are taking the template and placing ...
Bushart was arrested for "threatening mass violence at a school" over a political meme he posted, but the criminal charges ...
AI tools reveal how images have been manipulated. William Theisen et al. Imagine a country with deep political divisions, where different groups don’t trust each other and violence seems likely. Now, ...
Source: “The Temptation of Christ” (Public Domain, Artist Unknown), meme created by Megha Arora . Politics often seems like cheerleading. The metaphor is apt, for cheerleading is about signaling and ...
Several decades ago, a TV political commentator whose name is lost to memory said something memorable: “The American people like their solutions simple and stupid.” Whoever said it couldn’t have known ...
Internet platforms use algorithms designed to keep people engaged, and that typically means promoting content that stirs ...
House Bill 366 requires certain groups of people, including officeholders, candidates and political committees, to disclose if their political advertising content includes "appearance, speech, or ...
Memes, like jokes, are often depicted as mostly harmless and incapable of exerting political influence. But recent elections have demonstrated organizers can easily leverage them to build political ...