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Re:Computer Scientist Warns of Social Media Manipulation in ... by verisimilidude on Friday October 26, 2012 @01:59PM (#4703377)
The 140 character limit wouldn't exactly be new. Some voters base their decisions on even less information.

Hope, Change, Flip-flop, Romnesia, etc.

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Re:Computer Scientist Warns of Social Media Manipulation in ... by clarkm on Friday October 26, 2012 @03:30PM (#4703830)
The memeification of the election has been pretty interesting. The biggest examples:

- "You didn't build that"

- "legitimate rape"

- "Big Bird"

- "binders full of women"

- "the 47%"

- "horses and bayonets"

There's a lot more context to all of these statements, but no one seems to care.

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