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Bill Fox digs into how social media, online journalism have completely transformed the way we do politics

Trump, Trudeau, Tweets, Truth is an extended meditation on what has become of political discourse in the 21st century, when the news media of old—beggared by changed circumstances—are denigrated as yesterday’s gatekeepers, and the one thing the shouting match of social media will not tolerate is a gatekeeper.

Then-U.S. president Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured June 8, 2018, at the G7 meeting in Quebec. Twitter has assumed a centrality of place in the political theatre, becoming over the span of a few short years, the main stage on which the cut and thrust of partisan duelling plays out.Photograph courtesy of Global Affairs Canada

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BY CHRISTOPHER DORNAN

December 19, 2022

Just as I cracked the spine of this book, a darkness fell over Twitter. Elon Musk took ownership and the consuming topic of Twitter became the future of Twitter. An entire online community was suddenly aware of its own mortality.

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