Researcher examines social-media dispute after Riikka Purra’s Minttu remark
Translated from Finnish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Finnish Finance Minister Riikka Purra engaged in a Facebook dispute with citizen Päivi Kuitunen after Kuitunen commented on Purra’s smoothie video and referred to poor people’s situation.
- Researcher Elisa Kannasto said politicians personalising attacks against individual citizens reflects a new form of social-media culture.
Finance Minister Riikka Purra entered a Facebook argument with a citizen after posting a video of herself making a smoothie. Päivi Kuitunen, from Keuruu, commented on the video and drew attention to the situation of poor people.
Purra has posted smoothie videos and pictures on Instagram for years. More recently, she has also shared them on her public Facebook account.
Researcher Elisa Kannasto said the personalisation of attacks against individual citizens represents something new in social-media culture.
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Originally published by Helsingin Sanomat in Finnish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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