Ippolito Comments About Businesses and Social Media

Jon Ippolito, professor of new media at the University of Maine, was interviewed for a Kennebec Journal article about the price some businesses pay for taking public and controversial political stands. In the report about the backlash on Facebook by thousands of people who disagreed with a Levant apple orchard business that posted political signs, Ippolito said the business handled the situation well by simply removing the signs.

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