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University of Missouri Protests
In 2015 students started a protest called Racism Lives Here. Where they claimed that nothing had been about an incident involved Student Body Officer Payton Head where racial slurs were directed at him. He took to social media (facebook) to bring attention to the matter and when nothing had been done about the issue the other students at the school set up a protest to bring attention to the racism that was on or around campus. -
Womens March
This was a protest that occurred on March of 2017 after Donald Trump was inaugurated as the president of the United States. It was prompted by several of Trump's statements being viewed as anti-women or offensive to women. This started from two women posting on social media and it turned into a massive movement just before the day of the march having over 200,000 views on their page. -
Black Lives Matter
In May of 2020, George Floyd was killed by a police officer and through social media, protests were organized and people took to the streets to protest his death along with protesting police brutality. -
#StopHateForProfit
In June of 2020 companies including Coca-Cola, The North Face, HOnda, Levi's, Patagonia, Verizon, and Starbucks took a stand against hate speech happening on social media. In this case, they used their platform on social media to send a statement by discontinuing all ads until there were things in place to prevent hate speech within ads. -
Free Navalny
Protests exploded across Russia that were fueled by videos posted to social media. Even with the Russian government trying to censor them. Navalny called on his supports to take to the streets and the post promotion action went viral.
