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Social Media, Online Activism and 10 Years of #BlackLivesMatter | Pew Research Center

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This report studies the evolution of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag on Twitter and explores how the American public engages with political and social issues on social media. It uses a mixed-methods approach, including a survey of U.S. adults and an analysis of publicly available tweets. The Twitter findings are based on an analysis of over 44 million publicly available tweets containing the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag from the last 10 years. Researchers from the Center used the Twitter API to collect tweets with this hashtag that were publicly available on the site as of spring 2023. Using this dataset, we analyzed how often Twitter users post and retweet the hashtag; whether these tweets express support or opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement; whether they mention policing or police violence; and the other hashtags that are mentioned alongside #BlackLivesMatter. For more details on how these tweets were identified and sampled, read the methodology. The survey findings in this re

Report | June 29, 2023 #BlackLivesMatter Turns 10 Social media, online activism and 10 years of #BlackLivesMatter X Facebook Threads LinkedIn WhatsApp Mail Add Us On Google By Samuel Bestvater , Risa Gelles-Watnick , Meltem Odabaş , Monica Anderson and Aaron Smith Table of Contents #BlackLivesMatter Turns 10 1. Ten years of #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter 2. Americans’ views of and experiences with activism on social media Appendix Acknowledgments Methodology A Black Lives Matter street sign in New York City depicting the names of Black victims of police violence. (Joan Slatkin/Education Images/U

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