#MeToo: A Social Awakening
Twitter and Facebook, not traditional media, were the platforms of choice for women to name and shame alleged sexual predators. Google Trends' 3D visualisation of the most popular searches, titled 'Me Too Rising', showed India all lit up on a world map-and not even only in the big cities
by Suhani Singh
Oct 26, 2018
1 minute
Trending Hashtags Me Too, a term coined by African-American activist Tarana Burke in 2006, has spawned many hashtags, the most prominent being #TimesUp. In India, #IBelieveHer and #speakup were also commonly invoked ones. Mahesh Bhupathi began his post with #stopengaging to emphasise
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