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Episode: Inside the White House meme factory
Description: We need to talk about the memes your tax dollars paid for. What is the federal government trying to communicate with them?The social media accounts of the White House and the Department of Homeland Security have been chock-full of memes: memes that mock people being deported, memes that are aimed at recruiting new ICE agents, even a meme that seemingly references a book by a white supremacist. To get into who these memes are speaking to and what story theyβre trying to tell, Brittany sits down with NPR correspondent Shannon Bond and Joan Donovan, assistant professor of...