Think about the past year. How many times did you use a hashtag to show your support for a social issue or cause? If you’re like millions of people around the globe, you might have used one of these: ...

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We live in an era where a single hashtag can spark a global revolution. The way people organize, protest, and demand change ...

We at the hashtags that spawned the decade's biggest social movements. Gene McVay, Marcus Hunter and Tarana Burke discuss their roles. The 2010s: Hashtags And Social Movements LEILA FADEL, HOST: Today ...

Instagram is testing a new feature that will make it easier for users to discover and support social causes directly through hashtags, the company announced on Monday. Now, when you search for ...

Whether you’re a conservative or a liberal, you have most likely come across a political hashtag in an article, a tweet or a personal story shared on Facebook. A hashtag is a functional tag widely ...

Tarana Burke didn’t mean for “Me Too” to become a viral hashtag, let alone become the face of an entire cultural movement for survivors of sexual violence. The activist and social justice servant ...

This week saw the proliferation of COVID conspiracy theories on Chinese social media, the suppression of a popular hashtag about the Xuzhou trafficking and abuse case, and a Global Times broadside ...

Some of the Internet’s most viral hashtags have been created by Black women. From #BlackGirlMagic to #OscarsSoWhite, each tag was used to raise awareness on issues like diversity, police brutality, ...