SALT LAKE CITY — In the midst of a heated presidential election, political memes provided moments of levity — and frustration — for voters. The presidential candidates and their running mates tried to ...

Meme lovers raged after the Texas House of Representatives passed a bill requiring disclaimers on digitally altered political media. Many internet users have declared that the state is attempting to ...

House Bill 366 requires certain groups of people, including officeholders, candidates and political committees, to disclose if their political advertising content includes "appearance, speech, or ...

On Wednesday the Texas State House passed HB 366, which would make it a legal requirement for digitally altered media to be labeled such if it is used by a candidate or campaign group that spends over ...

In one week, American voters will “Pokemon Go to the polls.” From coconut trees accompanied by “Von Dutch” to Donald Trump’s recent stint as a McDonald’s worker, in the past decade, political memes ...

Source: “The Temptation of Christ” (Public Domain, Artist Unknown), meme created by Megha Arora . Politics often seems like cheerleading. The metaphor is apt, for cheerleading is about signaling and ...

AI tools reveal how images have been manipulated. William Theisen et al. Imagine a country with deep political divisions, where different groups don’t trust each other and violence seems likely. Now, ...

When the clock struck midnight on Oct. 1, a battle began to unfold in Washington, D.C. It was not, as some may have hoped, about how to reopen the government. No, for better or — more likely — for ...

Several decades ago, a TV political commentator whose name is lost to memory said something memorable: “The American people like their solutions simple and stupid.” Whoever said it couldn’t have known ...

Imagine a country with deep political divisions, where different groups don’t trust each other and violence seems likely. Now, imagine a flood of political images, hateful memes and mocking videos ...

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