Politics of memes: Why President Biden has used online visuals to push back against Trump’s lies
Whether it is a grinning President Joe Biden as “Dark Brandon” or Donald Trump’s face superimposed onto a scene from HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” both presidential campaigns this year have embraced digital memes, the lingua franca of social media. The campaigns of the current Democratic president – and the criminally convicted ex-president, adjudicated rapist, and a documented pathological liar – enthusiastically create and share content trying to shape the narratives around both men. President Biden’s campaign even recently posted a job seeking a manager of meme pages. With tens of millions of people using social media as a primary...
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