What we’ve got here is [NOT] a failure to communicate” to slightly alter the famous line from the movie Cool Hand Luke.
That line best describes public response to the Trump inauguration, the massive DC and national Women’s March, and the public and social media response to the first six days of the new administration.
The Trump campaign and transition teams, and the new White House advisors all pride themselves on their social media savvy. Led by the newly sworn-in POTUS and Twitter-in-Chief, social media is now alive with the sound of truth, lies, statistics and “alternate facts.”
And the new administration is scrambling to respond....
Twitter is filled with competing truths, lies and “alternate facts.” More than 2.5 million Twitter followers have pledged to support Alt-Gov accounts and a real movement is born.