How Memes Led to an Insurrection (not satire) - Kotaku In Action 2

How Memes Led to an Insurrection (not satire) (www.theatlantic.com)

posted 3 years ago by xleb2 3 years ago by xleb2 +21 / -0

A president who understood the power of memes was able to send thousands of people into battle against democracy itself.

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– xleb2 [S] 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

The 2020 election illustrated that social media could be turned against U.S. democracy when wielded by domestic political actors who understand how to use it to make their ideas go from the wires to the weeds. Trump was the first president to fully adopt meme wars as a campaign and governing strategy. He retweeted memes, amplified the voices of devoted meme warriors, adopted into his official campaign materials memes that had been workshopped on 4chan, and frequently behaved as a “general in the meme wars,”

Memes are killing democracy!

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