It's Election Day in the US and this one's a doozy. The Presidential race has been a nightmare going on for nearly two years. If the threat of a Donald Trump presidency for the third straight election ...
As we collectively wait for the polls to close and the results of the 2024 presidential election, we’re finding a reprieve in the good ole’ Internet. On X, Instagram, and TikTok people are jumping ...
Almost immediately after the UK general election was called on May 22, the meme war began. Social media campaigns from both the Labour and Conservative parties shared hundreds of memes, from Labour’s ...
Election Day in the U.S. is an important day, for sure, but it's also a great day for memes and jokes. After all, if the internet has proven anything, it's that it can make a meme out of any situation ...
The meme business is booming. And so the editors of Know Your Meme—a website that uses Wikipedia-esque software to track memes and viral phenomenon—don’t have time to fuck around. When I visited the ...
The 2020 presidential election has been anxiety-inducing to say the least. At the this article is being published, Joe Biden has garnered 238 electoral college votes, while President Trump has 213, ...
Tomorrow is the last day to vote in the midterm elections, and people are comparing their feels for the 2018 election to their emotions leading up to the 2016 presidential election. Some very ...
Memes making the rounds on social media are celebrating Oklahoma as the "perfect state" after President-elect Donald Trump received the majority of votes in every county. Even Oklahoma Gov. Kevin ...
As Australia begins voting in the federal election, we’re awash with political messages. While this of course includes the typical paid ads in newspapers and on TV (those ones with the infamously fast ...
Perhaps you’ve heard — maybe even on this show — that generative artificial intelligence has the potential to supercharge mis- and disinformation in our elections. A bad actor could use AI tools to ...
A pro-Trump Twitter influencer was found guilty of election interference for memes shared around the 2016 presidential election. Douglass Mackey, 33, better known by his online handle Ricky Vaughn, ...
Rowan Ashley Smith has often been described as "a multi-hyphenate about town." He loves work that connects him to his cultures as a gay, Jewish, multiracial trans man. Before breaking into journalism, ...