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Social media spurs hype on polls for pope
The Citizen
|May 07, 2025
Hype has been building on social media around the Catholic Church's secretive, centuries-old tradition of conclaves to elect a new pope, animating users from the White House on down.
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Paris —
US President Donald Trump on Saturday posted an apparently AI-generated image of himself wearing papal vestments and sitting on a throne, one finger directed to the heavens.
The striking picture was the most notorious among thousands that have bubbled up since the death of Pope Francis on 21 April and before the cardinals' gathering starting today.
More than 1.3 million tweets have been published on X about the conclave, according to monitoring platform Visibrain, while TikTok videos on the topic have been viewed over 363 million times on the network with unparalleled reach among the young.
This story is from the May 07, 2025 edition of The Citizen.
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