"countermeme" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2012 October 4, John Timpane, “Political polls ignite meme war between Democrats and Republicans”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, P.A.: The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-10:",
          "text": "But the GOP and its phalanxes were ready with a countermeme. Enter Unskewedpolls.com. That website, run by Dean Chambers, a Republican blogger and Romney supporter from Virginia, claims to correct polls that Chambers says give too much weight to Democratic votership. Six-point Obama leads turn into 7.8-point Romney leads.",
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          "ref": "2018 June 14, Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz, “Colonizing Pepe: Internet Memes as Cyberplaces”, in Space and Culture, volume 24, number 1, SAGE Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Replies to the tweets tried to undermine the image by posting other memes countering the original's idea, or by mocking it. In this case, three countermemes were posted, all hijacking and repurposing the original meme, other memes posted by the ADL, or Matt Furie himself.",
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          "ref": "2020 July 18, Russell Brandom, “TikTok turned his song into a creepy meme — until fans took it back”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2023-02-06:",
          "text": "The post brought in half a million likes, and launched a wave of countermemes under the same audio tag, a slowed down version of Dissolve's familiar hook.",
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          "ref": "2023 June 8, Anne Applebaum, “The True Purpose of Ukraine’s Counteroffensive”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-08:",
          "text": "Future reports from any source should be treated with caution. What we can see is not the \"fog of war,\" in the old-fashioned sense; instead it is a kind of swirling tornado, a maelstrom of claims and counterclaims, memes and countermemes, real battles taking place away from television screens and fake ones happening on camera.",
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          "text": "But the GOP and its phalanxes were ready with a countermeme. Enter Unskewedpolls.com. That website, run by Dean Chambers, a Republican blogger and Romney supporter from Virginia, claims to correct polls that Chambers says give too much weight to Democratic votership. Six-point Obama leads turn into 7.8-point Romney leads.",
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          "text": "Replies to the tweets tried to undermine the image by posting other memes countering the original's idea, or by mocking it. In this case, three countermemes were posted, all hijacking and repurposing the original meme, other memes posted by the ADL, or Matt Furie himself.",
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          "text": "Future reports from any source should be treated with caution. What we can see is not the \"fog of war,\" in the old-fashioned sense; instead it is a kind of swirling tornado, a maelstrom of claims and counterclaims, memes and countermemes, real battles taking place away from television screens and fake ones happening on camera.",
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