“Kamala is Brat,” Dark Brandon, childless cat ladies—they’re almost as well known as this year’s presidential candidates themselves. While these and other examples of memes are a source of ...

2024 election memes have been as much a part of this insufferably long campaign season as polls, gun violence, and existential despair. From the Dark Brandon jokes to lies about Haitian migrants ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trump Dance memes reference a TikTok trend in which users mimic or highlight the president-elect’s moves to songs like “Y.M.C.A.” The trend kicked off in 2020 after Donald Trump first demonstrated his ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris drew cheers from his supporters, left his critics devastated, and generated no shortage of memes on social media, from all ...

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 ...

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 ...

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