Texts from Hillary

Texts from Hillary was an internet meme that went viral in 2012, based on a pair of photographs of Hillary Clinton. The photos are of the same moment, from slightly different angles, and show Clinton holding a BlackBerry phone, wearing sunglasses. One version of the photo was taken by Diane Walker from Time magazine, the other by Kevin Lamarque from the Associated Press. The photo was taken while Clinton was Secretary of State of the United States, aboard a diplomatic trip to Libya. The meme spawned a Tumblr blog, which added various captions under the photo hypothesizing what Clinton might have been texting along with matching photos to represent her imagined conversation partner. Email controversy: In June 2016, a Freedom of Information Act deposition in a lawsuit by Judicial Watch, which was part of the Hillary Clinton email controversy, revealed that the photo caught the interest of state department employees, who were inspired to investigate if Clinton was using a personal email account instead of an official state account. Clinton used the photo as her Twitter avatar until a week after the controversy first broke.