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Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter started when black teenager Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a white police officer. It started a hashtag #blacklivesmatter that started trending on Twitter. I think Twitter is the main platform for this movement. It consists of people sharing stories of racism and injustice they experience because of the color of their skin. -
Free The Nipple
The Free The Nipple Campaign was started to encourage equality, and empower all human beings. This campaign started because of a movie released on Netflix and it sparked the Free The Nipple campaign. #freethenipple took twitter by storm. This led to people posting pictures on Instagram and Snapchat. Celebrities getting involved, one of the main ones being Chrissy Teigen. -
Love Wins Movement
The #LoveWins movement started as soon as the US Supreme court legalized gay marriage in the US. It spread like wildfire with people posting on Twitter, Instagram, and SnapChat supporting the LGBTQ+ community. Social media helped spread the word and offered support to the LGBTQ+ community members. -
Take a Knee
This movement was started by NFL players who took a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality. It was widely criticized, but also gained a lot of press. They started the #takeaknee movement on Twitter, it was all over the news, Snapchat, as well as Facebook. -
#MeToo
The MeToo movement was huge in social media, and is still going on today. They used Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Local news outlets to share their stories of abuse. This spread the word and encouraged others to share their abuse stories as well. -
Never Again/March For Our Lives
The never again movement started after the Parkland school shooting. It's main purpose is to have tighter gun control regulations to end gun violence. The campaign started on Twitter with #NeverAgain and #EnoughIsEnough. They held protests called March For Our Lives where hundreds of thousands of people protested for better gun control regulations.
