Almost immediately after the UK general election was called on May 22, the meme war began. Social media campaigns from both the Labour and Conservative parties shared hundreds of memes, from Labour’s ...

As we collectively wait for the polls to close and the results of the 2024 presidential election, we’re finding a reprieve in the good ole’ Internet. On X, Instagram, and TikTok people are jumping ...

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Tomorrow is the last day to vote in the midterm elections, and people are comparing their feels for the 2018 election to their emotions leading up to the 2016 presidential election. Some very ...

The 2020 presidential election has been anxiety-inducing to say the least. At the this article is being published, Joe Biden has garnered 238 electoral college votes, while President Trump has 213, ...

It's Election Day in the US and this one's a doozy. The Presidential race has been a nightmare going on for nearly two years. If the threat of a Donald Trump presidency for the third straight election ...

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The counting for the high-stakes Bihar Assembly Election 2025 brought not only numbers and political shifts but also a full wave of jokes, satire, and sharp memes across X. As the National Democratic ...

The US election showed shades of the meme-stock mania of early 2021. Elon Musk and Mark Cuban featured, traders bet big, and young men played key roles. An analyst said that "the target list has grown ...

The meme business is booming. And so the editors of Know Your Meme—a website that uses Wikipedia-esque software to track memes and viral phenomenon—don’t have time to fuck around. When I visited the ...

Perhaps you’ve heard — maybe even on this show — that generative artificial intelligence has the potential to supercharge mis- and disinformation in our elections. A bad actor could use AI tools to ...