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ALS Movement
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014, encourage and promote funding and research and to raise awareness about the disease. It went viral on social media and platforms like Facebook and Instagram. It encouraged others to tag people in their posts and have them share and reshape the posts. Many political leaders, celebrities and people in the public eye took to social media to participate in it too. -
Same-Sex Marriage
When gay marriage was legalized and within movements to encourage rights of LGBT members, Twitter sparked a movement using the hashtag #LoveWins. People used the hashtag to promote and endorse same sex relationships. -
Women's March/Women's rights movement
The women march which demands equality for women in 2017, was created on Twitter with the hashtag #Women'smarch and helped them organize protests around the country in different cities -
#MeToo
In 2017, The Me Too movement became a popular Twitter trend with the hashtag associated with it. Social media was utilized because it gave women platform to speak up in a way that was easy to write out in 280 characters and a hashtag to show support for others to speak up with their stories too. -
#AbolishICE
The Abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement was sparked in June of 2018 on the Twitter platform. It received attention and used tactics like viral hashtags like: #AbolishICE #DefundICE #ShutdownICE. And was able to organize and draw attention to peaceful protests online, -
Never Again Movement
The student enforced gun control political movement was sparked in February 2018 in response to recent mass shootings in the U.S. Students wrote Facebook posts expressing their feelings which later led to them being on national news. Students from Parkland high school created a Facebook page and made social media accounts to enforce change and they began the #NeverAgain.
