We’ve all been warned that the Internet is permanent. So what happens when young people – who’ve been posting online their entire lives – begin to enter politics? With so many political careers already being ended because of old posts on social media, will Millennial and Gen Z political careers be killed off too quickly?
Rachael Conaghan, News & Politics Writer for Junkee, joins Debatable to discuss whether we need to re-evaluate the importance of old tweets, for our own sakes.
In the episode:
- How social media has changed political reporting
- Every dumb thing young people have said is online
- Algorithms and outrage clicks
- Young politicians Luke Creasey and Jessica Whelan stood down in the 2019 election
- Are we more interested in when politicians fail than when they succeed?
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