The scourge of social media skeletons

The reality of politics today is that whatever you’ve stated on blogs or on Facebook or on Twitter in the past can and will be used against you in the present.
OAKVILLE, ONT.—Here’s my advice for anyone contemplating a run for elected office: erase anything and everything you’ve ever posted anywhere on social media. And then, after completely expunging your social media past, set up new social media accounts in which you post nothing but trivial and...

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