Ted Cruz ‘likes’ porn video on Twitter - and other social media gaffes

The Texas senator’s faux-pas is the latest in a long line of incidents when politics and Twitter didn’t mix

Ted Cruz
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Former Republican presidential nominee Ted Cruz found himself at the centre of a Twitter storm when he appeared to “like” a pornographic video on the social media platform.

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