Why do we share political memes on social media?


55% of Americans have shared a political meme in the past three months. — AFP Relaxnews

New ones emerge each day, especially a few weeks before the US presidential election. Forwarding a picture of Donald Trump’s windblown hair or Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez coming for you is a way to show where you stand on the political spectrum. A new survey explains why 55% of Americans have shared a political meme in the past three months.

A survey conducted by Harris Poll on over a thousand American adults, shows that 90% have shared political memes on Facebook during the past three months, while 59% did so on Twitter.

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