‘Twitter is not real life!’ insist ‘professional’ political commentators.
Their denials grow weaker as the prime ministers and presidents of the world’s most powerful nations tweet passive-aggressive insults at each other while real bombs fall on cities. Not only has Twitter and the wider oligarchy of social media formed a patent on ‘truth’, it has become a battleground for propaganda.
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