Inside the White House meme factory | It's Been a Minute
August 22, 2025
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as posted by the channelWe 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 chockfull of memesmemes 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 they’re trying to tell, Brittany sits down with NPR correspondent Shannon Bond () and Joan Donovan () , assistant professor of journalism and emerging media studies at Boston University and founder of the Critical Internet Studies Institute.
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