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What Trump’s FDA Commissioner Could Teach Trump About Twitter

 
• By Michael McCaughan

President Trump and his FDA Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, are both pioneers in using social media in their government roles while also being media savvy in the old-fashioned sense. The similarities end there.

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Love it or hate it, there is no denying that Donald Trump’s Twitter account has had a transformative effect on the notion of Presidential communication.

In our own little corner of the world, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has played a similar pioneering role in using...

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