They often feature heavily armed soldiers and serve to highlight, even in jokes, the tremendous destructive capacity of the armed forces. In turn, such memes have been turned into commercial ...

it becomes clearer how memes can be weaponized for political warfare. In 2016, Esquire magazine wrote that “Internet mockery was emerging as a legitimate political technique: shitposting.

The meme is, as of Wednesday morning, still going strong. It hit a nerve—the same nerve, roughly, that had been hit by “binders full of women” and “such a nasty woman” before it.

Seemingly neutral memes can also be “weaponized” by mixing them with other messages. For example, the “Pepe the Frog” meme has been used in this way to create politically active ...

I wandered further, clicking through the links to Facebook pages like Sassy Socialist Memes and the Bernie Sanders Dank Meme Stash. The images made me laugh, partly because, like an infant ...

Memetic is based on the Boom! comic of the same name, which explored the idea of a weaponized meme. A meme known as the Good Time Sloth becomes a viral sensation, and half a day later everyone ...

The campaign used memes, fake news, forged documents, and a network of websites impersonating legitimate news outlets to spread disinformation. The U.S. has sanctioned the Social Design Agency and ...