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  • How Ron DeSantis Lost the Internet

    10/21/2023 12:16:05 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 69 replies
    NY Times ^ | Oct. 21, 2023, 5:01 a.m. ET | By Ken Bensinger and Nicholas Nehamas
    The G.O.P. contender’s campaign tried to take on Donald Trump’s online army. Now it just wants to end the meme wars. ---------------------------------- In early May, as Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida prepared to run for president, about a dozen right-wing social media influencers gathered at his pollster’s home for cocktails and a poolside buffet. The guests all had large followings or successful podcasts and were already fans of the governor. But Mr. DeSantis’s team wanted to turn them into a battalion of on-message surrogates who could tangle with Donald J. Trump and his supporters online. For some, however, the gathering...