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06-30-2016, 03:23 PM
The new political battleground: Grindr, Instagram and Vine
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In Australia, you can't even get a date these days without being accosted by a politician.
Instead of simply legislating to give the youth what they want in the July 2 election — think marriage equality, jobs and action on climate change — the politicians have instead chosen to bombard them with sound bites in the digital spaces where they spend time.*
SEE ALSO: Awful Australian election made more awful by awful Facebook Live videos (http://mashable.com/2016/06/21/facebook-live-australia/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
One Australian political party, The Greens, has even been sending campaign messages on the gay dating app, Grindr. "Don't get screwed!" certainly seems persuasive. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/social-media-australian-election/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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In Australia, you can't even get a date these days without being accosted by a politician.
Instead of simply legislating to give the youth what they want in the July 2 election — think marriage equality, jobs and action on climate change — the politicians have instead chosen to bombard them with sound bites in the digital spaces where they spend time.*
SEE ALSO: Awful Australian election made more awful by awful Facebook Live videos (http://mashable.com/2016/06/21/facebook-live-australia/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
One Australian political party, The Greens, has even been sending campaign messages on the gay dating app, Grindr. "Don't get screwed!" certainly seems persuasive. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/social-media-australian-election/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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