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How memes are replacing political satire

15 April 2023

9:00 AM

15 April 2023

9:00 AM

Throughout history, satire has been used to hold the powerful and pretentious to account through irony, exaggeration and often-brutal ridicule. During the Middle Ages, jesters were allowed to talk and mock freely without fear of recrimination or punishment. In medieval courts jesters used this privilege to tell monarchs things they didn’t want to hear, or to present information others dared not.

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