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How Labour won the social media war

World at One

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It was the young wot won it, to misquote a famous Sun newspaper front page. The number of people aged under 35 who applied for a vote in the run-up to the election - 1.5 million - appears to have been matched by rise in turnout. As the Âé¶¹Éç's Dino Sofos finds out, social media was an important tool in mobilising young Labour voters, with much of the Labour-supporting content generated not by the party itself, but by activists. (Image: Corbyn fans at Glastonbury. Credit: Getty Images)

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