Joan Donovan
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“But it is undeniable that Trump harnessed and encouraged the antiestablishment energy found online, and that his status as president helped this energy move from the wires to the weeds. Stop the Steal, Trump’s last gamble, showed him ready to exploit the very people who had voted for him and who he surely knew were susceptible to his lies.”
― Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America
― Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America
“Clickbait ushered in an era of “fake news,” which led us to the disinformation age of the 2020s, where it’s so hard to tell truth from fact online that bad actors have figured out how to get what they want—be that money or power or something else—by spreading intentionally false information.”
― Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America
― Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America
“The meme-ification of Black death29 was not new here. What was new was the means by which Black death through photos was digitized and distributed to new audiences, particularly ones who were not necessarily seeking it out.”
― Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America
― Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America
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