Bigots use AI to make Nazi memes on 4chan. Verified users post them on X. The ecosystem for explicitly racist and antisemitic memes starts on a fringe site, but ends up in the mainstream through ...

Memes have been a regular, if enigmatic, feature of American politics since the primordial days of social media. But the early months of the Trump-Harris race have offered a twist on this familiar ...

Most people, even older people, are familiar with the term or the concept, even if they’re just looking at Minions memes on Facebook,” Mr. Sweat says.

The recently announced crackdown on slang and memes is but the latest iteration of the CAC ’s long-running series of “ Clear and Bright ” campaigns, periodic clean-ups that take aim at ...

And while a lot of people think of memes as harmless entertainment—funny, snarky comments on current events—we’re far beyond that now. Meme wars are a consistent feature of our politics, and ...

The online use of anti-police memes has surged, a new research report says, raising concerns that they might spur real-world violence. The report drew particular attention to the growing use of ...

When 17-year-old Luc Charlebois woke up on Jan. 3, he checked Twitter and saw that #WWIII was trending. The trending page was full of memes and jokes about getting drafted for what was being ...

Given 1 million memes, the AI system with 85.8% accuracy would misclassify 142,000 of them. If it were deployed on Facebook, untold numbers of users could be exposed to hateful memes.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s a grinning Joe Biden as “Dark Brandon” or Donald Trump’s face superimposed onto a scene from HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” both presidential campaigns this year have embraced ...