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Radio 4,7 mins

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 麻豆社'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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