Twitter has played a huge role in Donald Trump's politics, campaign, and presidency. The President's preferred form of social media has been used to hurl thousands of insults, promote businesses that provide him financial support, make troubling statements about sexual assault, lambaste the intelligence community, and block people who disagree with him, just to name a few. Since the 45th President of the United States appears to love the act of tweeting (at all hours of the night, no less), the latest anti-Trump movement attempts to hit him where it really hurts. Behold Mute Monday, a Twitter hashtag aimed at silencing Trump's 140-character platform.
Launched by feminist newsletter Signal Boost, Mute Monday calls for people to unfollow both @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS on Twitter, and to instead "follow someone working towards the progress we all still believe in" in their place, and then share who they chose to follow and why using the hashtag #MuteMonday. Signal Boost offered up some suggestions of organizations to follow in Trump's place, including "an organization dedicated to protecting reproductive rights or keeping families together and safe from deportation, an elected leader you want to hear from in 2020, [or] a local progressive candidate who's running to protect her community." And just hours into Monday, the en masse unfollowing had begun.
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The Mute Monday movement comes on the heels of the historic and inspiring Women's March that took place over the weekend. More than 3.3 million people peacefully affirmed women's rights in cities across the world Saturday; while official numbers are still being tallied, it's so far believed to be America's largest day of demonstration in history, Vox points out.
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