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January 6 Insurrection
January 6 was set to be a protest of the US presidential election. This was ignited through twitter by tweets from president trump, videos were spread throughout social media of the insurrection on twitter, facebook, instagram, and tik tok. -
Black Lives Matter
Focused on racism especially concerns between police and black people. Also focused on the justice system and its affects toward the black community. Twitter, Tik Tok, and facebook were largely used for spreading awareness, coordinating protests, sharing information, stories etc. -
Russia Invades Ukraine
Social media has been a large part of the russia-ukraine war. There has been lots of debate on twitter, facebook, and tik tok about who is at fault. Sharing images, awareness of the events. Also has created divide across the world particularly in the US. -
Israel-Gaza(Hamas) War
Lots of similarity between this and the ukraine-russia war. Lots of division particularly in the US. Social media has shared awareness, videos, attempts to draw support on both sides. -
2024 US Election
Social media, particularly tik tok, facebook, and twitter were all heavily used to spread lots of information and misinformation. For example "they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats." Fear was spread on both sides saying that if the other wins this may be the last election the US will have.