Recent Finnish elections saw gains for the Left Alliance — and losses for the right-wing populist Finns Party. Leftist meme ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Harvard disinformation expert Joan Donovan about memes and how they've come to play, at times, a dangerous role in today's divisive political climate.

How memes became a problematic influence on American politics. Emily Dreyfuss, co-author of the new book “Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America ...

Politics today is performance, and memes are its loudest cheerleaders—spreading fast, shaping beliefs, and signaling identity. Are we debating, or just rooting for our team?

Douglass Mackey, the social media influencer who was sentenced to prison for posting an anti-Hillary Clinton meme, had his ...

Elon Musk announced plans to create a new political party called the "America Party," with market players minting meme coins ...

Like political ads, memes about candidates and campaigns have “minimal” impact in shaping voter engagement, according to some Stanford professors.

Political memes are no different, ... Mr. Caldwell, said, is often fatal — a clash of high and low that simultaneously denatures the meme and can make the politicians look desperate.

The memes will continue." "They're leaning pretty heavily into meme culture and to chronically online individuals," said Jacob Neiheisel, a political science professor at the University of Buffalo.

Instagram’s longstanding tensions with progressive and leftist creators. Instagram isn't a platform exclusively for political memes. As Pew Research found in 2024, the platform is primarily for ...

"I'll tell you: We're banning political memes and giving people up to a year in jail for failing to attach a disclosure to a cartoon. Democrats, of course, are rallying around this bill. What a joke." ...