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The Revolution Will Be Tweeted: In Politics, TV Still Matters, but Social Media Matters More and More

2016’s election featured the first real tidal wave of political discourse taking place on social media. Tweets, Snapchat posts, and Facebook updates took the reins from television, with 81 percent of adults consuming news online at the time. Experts predicted that the impacts of political events, like convention speeches, would be measured more accurately online than through the TV. Four years later, social media’s presence seems to only have gotten stronger. It’s omnipresence can almost trick us into forgetting that we once consumed our news any other way. But Carla Marinucci’s 2016 piece on the take-over of social media in elections brings the peculiar nature of our reality back into focus.

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