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Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can.…

— Clay Shirky

Quite a lot has been written, including by me, about the effect of social media on politics, and in particular the way in which…

— Anne Applebaum

Facebook deploys a political advertising sales team, specialized by political party and charged with convincing deep-pocketed politicians that they do have the kind of…

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Social media can be so damaging.

— Ella Purnell

The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

We utilize social media, we try to connect with voters in a way that's not only about politics. Letting people into your lives.

— Dan Crenshaw

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

— Beth Simone Noveck

To those who wish to shape the nation's political dialogue, social media is dangerous.

— Ajit Pai

“For some politics has become a battle ground that allows them to vent their frustrations, while at the same time hide behind the anonymity…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

Social media has had a corrosive effect on government and trust, and I think it is a real cause for concern.

— Richard Edelman