Is social media empowering Dutch populism?
FT analysis explores the influence of #Twitter and #Facebook in the Netherlands’ election
►https://www.ft.com/content/b1830ac2-07f4-11e7-97d1-5e720a26771b
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Is social media empowering Dutch populism?
FT analysis explores the influence of #Twitter and #Facebook in the Netherlands’ election
Is social media empowering Dutch populism?
►https://www.ft.com/content/b1830ac2-07f4-11e7-97d1-5e720a26771b
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Dutch voters go to the polls on Wednesday amid mounting international concern over the role of social media and so-called “fake news” in recent political campaigns.
tion Party for Freedom (PVV), which is projected to finish as the second- or third-largest party in the lower house, makes no secret of his disdain for established news outlets. Twitter is his social network of choice: between December and February he repeatedly shared a cartoon depicting US president Donald Trump pitching a ball labelled “social media” over the heads of a group of reporters into the hands of an everyman in an armchair.