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#metoo
The #metoo movement gained massive popularity through Twitter when the hashtag was used over 500,000 times just in the year 2017. The hashtag was used to raise awareness on the sexual assault experiences of women and to show how common it really is. -
Climate Change
While climate change has been a known issue for years, the topic became controversial when Donald Trump ran for president and suggested it was a hoax. The conversation was brought back up in 2018 when Greta Thunberg, a young Swedish Climate change activist, started a school strike and it spread on social media. -
Notre Dame Fire
This one definitely doesn't seem like a movement, but when the Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire in 2019, thousands of people posted about it on social media, and enough people talked about it and donated that they were able to gather enough money to rebuild the French cathedral. -
Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter movement experienced a huge resurgence in popularity after the death of George Floyd (among other events of police brutality as well). -
Stop AAPI Hate
The movement Stop Asian Hate has started to become a huge topic on social media after a shooting in Atlanta that specifically targeted Asian women.