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Inside the White House meme factory

Inside the White House meme factory

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We need to talk about the memes your tax dollars paid for. What is
the federal government trying to communicate with them?

The social media accounts of the White House and the Department of
Homeland Security have been chock-full of memes: memes that mock
people being deported, memes that are aimed at recruiting new ICE
agents, even a meme that seemingly references a book by a white
supremacist. To get into who these memes are speaking to and what
story they’re trying to tell, Brittany sits down with NPR
correspondent Shannon Bond and Joan Donovan, assistant professor of
journalism and emerging media studies at Boston University and
founder of the Critical Internet Studies Institute.

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