#cdnpoli: social media like Twitter can polarize voters and over-simplify issues

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Selfies have become the modern day autograph, says Mark Blevis, and no one does more of them than Justin Trudeau, the 'selfie prime minister.'The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY CHELSEA NASH

February 22, 2017

The effective use of social media may at one time have given a politician an edge over their opponent. But in a world where President of the United States Donald Trump uses 140-character tweets to address and announce policy issues, and Justin Trudeau is known as the ...

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