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Starting in 2018, the Me Too movement was greatly expanded via using the social media hashtag #MeToo to bring to light the experiences of unheard victims of rape and sexual assault. This led to a greater social disturbance concerning sexual assault in America and trying to get justice for sexual assault victims. Twitter was primarily used. This movement used the tactic of letting victims highlight their experiences and identify with each other/receive support through the use of the hashtag. -
Nigerian citizens protested heavily in 2020 to call for the end of a special police task force, SARS, which has been accused of citizen abuse in the past. The protests started in 2016 but gained increased traction in 2020 after SARS killed an unarmed man and the video was shared on local social media. Twitter was again the most widely used form of social media for this protest, and the hashtag #EndSARS was shared thousands of times to raise public awareness and call for governmental action. -
After George Floyd was killed by a negligent police officer in 2020, people took to social media. Black Lives Matter was especially influential and worked to use social media to increase public awareness of today's police brutality against black people and to organize many impromptu rallies and protests to stand for black rights. All social media was used, but once again, Twitter was used most to protest digitally, although Facebook was used a lot as well to share activism and plan protests. -
On January 6, 2021, conservative protesters thronged D.C. to protest the alleged election tampering which they believed led to the election of President Joe Biden. Although the incident occurred in 2021, the social media activity leading up to it was mostly in 2020. Many pro-Trump YouTube videos were made that encouraged conservatives to protest Biden winning the election. These videos were shared on social media sites (particularly Facebook) which led to the Capitol protest. -
As tensions rise in communist Cuba, citizens have responded to economic crisis by taking to the streets. In the wake of the largest anti-communist protests Cuba has seen in years, the government limited access to the internet and social media, which only served to increase the protesting. Facebook helped to increase awareness in the time leading up to the protests, and citizens are currently looking to a Facebook live stream that is keeping the fire of the protests alive.