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2016 Election Year
During the year of the 2016 election, Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton used their social media platforms to improve their poll standings and public opinion in their favor. -
Trump & Tik Tok
In an effort to disrupt a Trump rally, K-pop fans and Tik Tok users banded together to reserve seats to the rally without ever showing up. Only 6,000 out of the 19,000 seats were filled. -
#BlackLivesMatter
During pandemic times and additional moments of outrage and protests, The BLM movement could be found all over social media, mainly on Twitter but then crept into Instagram when users would post nothing but a black background with the caption #BlackoutTuesday. -
Permanent Suspension of Donald Trump's Twitter
In context of the January 6 2021 Insurrection at the Capitol and with combination of Tweets, Trump was expelled from the social media site for "incitement of violence". This was discussed online for many months afterwards. -
2022 Russia Ukraine War
Since the announcement of the war, Ukraine took to Tik Tok and Twitter videos showing behind the scenes of the war and harassed Russia with memes. Not only the bombings and aftermath involving civilians but also soldiers' point-of-views in the trenches and their thoughts and feelings of the war.