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@article{Enli2017TwitterAA,
title={Twitter as arena for the authentic outsider: exploring the social media campaigns of Trump and Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election},
author={Gunn Sara Enli},
journal={European Journal of Communication},
year={2017},
volume={32},
pages={50 - 61},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:149265798}
}In the 2016 US presidential election campaign, social media platforms were increasingly used as direct sources of news, bypassing the editorial media. With the candidates’ millions of followers, Twitter has become a platform for mass communication and the candidate’s main online information channel. Likewise, social media has provided a platform for debating and critiquing the mainstream media by the campaigns and their networks. This article discusses the Twitter strategies of the democratic…