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Politics
Brian Karem

Putin is losing the social media war

Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images
Longtime White House correspondent Brian Karem writes a weekly column for Salon.

In the end, future historians may well label this the first "social media war," just as Vietnam was the first televised war and the Gulf War of 1991 was the first cable news war.

And as Vladimir Putin's "chosen war" against Ukraine enters its third week, fear and outrage continue to spread across the globe like gangrene. It's increasingly apparent that social media is driving the coverage and providing key information.

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