In the years since Sarah Palin’s sound bites and the “Obama girl” cemented 2008 as America’s first “YouTube election,” the world’s most popular video site has proven even more spellbinding — and powerful — than political campaigns ever imagined.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
How YouTube is shaping the 2016 presidential election
By Drew Harwell
March 25, 2016 at 7:00 a.m. EDT