Obama has the most followed Twitter account in the world, but rather than use it as a political weapon, he acts more like a celebrity social media influencer. He’s also a social media skeptic. One of his recent book recommendations was The Shallows, Nicholas Carr’s examination of how the internet is turning our brains to mush. While many of his closest advisers are well-known Twitter combatants, Obama has consistently voiced skepticism about the partisan “siloing” that social media encourages.
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