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No filter? Twitter’s integral — if at times toxic — role in politics.

It happens more often than you care to count. A political campaign announces a new hire, usually a rising star. The media reports on it, first positively, if superficially — then, after a few days’ digging, unearths racist/sexist/homophobic/fat-shaming tweets from five years ago. Or a politician tweets (or retweets) something inappropriate — pictures of certain […]

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