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Black Lives Matter
Twitter was the main form of social media used as tweets about black lives matter was tweeted over 9 million times. This is one of the fastest way to spread information around the united states. This event was mainly focused in the south but made its way throughout the united states because of twitter. The hastags were huge in spreading the information about social justice and racial equality. -
I stand with Ahmed
The main forms of social media used were twitter and at the end of the campaign, facebook.
Twitter is a very powerful media outlet that lets anyone throughout the united states speak about an issue. For this campaign, president obama spoke out in favor of him. There tactics were too let the nation understand how our government treats refugees -
Feminist Pro Choice
Women are fighting back by showing they are more than objects because of what donald trump says about them. Facebook is the main media outlet used by showing pictures and videos of donald trump saying negative things about women. They want to show the rest of the nation who is leading our country. -
Indigenous Water Rights
Facebook Live video was the main form of social media being used. Standing Rock hastag went viral through all media outlets.
This movement may not have won the pipeline but its goal was to get native american voices to the stop of the media mainstream.
Showing the rest of the world what the united states government was like against native american locals. -
Marriage Equality
Ireland and United States movement that pushed to allow same sex marriage. People would add rainbow filters to their facebook profile pictures to show they support for same sex marriages. 26 million facebook users did this. While on twitter people would add rainbow flag emoji to their account to show their support. This doesn't add specific support but it spreads awareness about this movement which is the most important factor.
