Thousands and thousands of migrants from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador have arrived at the United States-Mexico border. The migrants are seeking to escape poverty and violence that they experience in their native countries. These migrants are looking for a better future for both themselves and their children in America. Some migrants even have goals […]
Read more "Migrant Caravan: At the Border"Democratic politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked: “How is Columbus Day a holiday but Election Day not?” via Twitter. As one can imagine, this stirred up some political tensions around the holiday, and spiked #ColumbusDay into a trending topic. Perhaps we can get rid of #ColumbusDay (conqueror/invader) & replace it with a #NationalVotingDay, overhaul the voting system […]
Read more "The #ColumbusDay Debate"Climate change is fake news people! Coal is where it's at… great jobs… great for the environment too! I bathe in coal dust great great exfoliate beautiful exfoliate ask your boy Donald. #ClimateChange — Joe Drigon (@kingdbag) November 24, 2018 #ClimateChange OK so let's hear Gore, Sanders, The Weather Channel etc start advocating for […]
Read more "Will Politics Cost Us Our Planet?"On National Kindness Day, Coca-Cola took a new and innovative approach to rebrand their company across all their social media platforms. Since the social media space as a whole has been increasingly plagued with more and more negative or controversial content, Coca-Cola took the high road with this campaign. Coca-Cola rebranded by providing positive and uplifting […]
Read more "Same Formula. New Coke. #RefreshTheFeed"Climate change is real, a report released by government agencies last week proves such. Politicians quickly shared the report on social media with #ClimateChange attached so young, mobilizing audiences share it with their communities. Research shows us that #climatechange is threatening America’s crop production and food security. We cannot ignore the facts. We must #actonclimate. […]
Read more "Burning Up: Debates Over #ClimateChange"There is much debate and controversy surrounding the use of ‘juul’ e-cigarettes. Recently the FDA has been working to restrict the sale of all e-cigarette flavors with the exception of menthol, mint and tobacco flavors. The measure is intended to curtail the use of e-cigarettes, and has also been tied an effort to cut teenage […]
Read more "Is it Cool to #juul ?"Fashion house Dior made actress Jennifer Lawrence the face of a new campaign celebrating Mexican culture…the problem: Dior chose a Caucasian woman and shot the campaign in California. Some people think the campaign has undertones of cultural appropriation, while others don’t see any problems. Here are some tweets using the hashtag #Dior: Jennifer Lawrence on […]
Read more "At the Intersection of Fashion and Political Correctness"In today’s political climate, there are few topics as divisive as gun control. While each side has its own hashtags, #2A is used by both sides when weighing in the Second Amendment. While the arguments made using #2A are opposing, both sides use similar tactics when making their argument. Many users tweeting about #2A try […]
Read more "The 2 Sides of #2A"Pineapple on pizza is a long standing controversy among the twitter community. This conversation became a trending topic last January when the inventor of Hawaiian pizza died at the age of 83. The behind behind the controversy is Sam Panopoulous. The pizza topping began as a simple experiment to see if costumer’s enjoyed his concoction. […]
Read more "The debate of our century"These days, it feels as though Lena Dunham trends on Twitter faster than you can remember what she did the last time to make pop culture news. Dunham, known for her work as a writer, creator, and actor on the HBO series Girls, can be… problematic to say, the least. In a new story by The […]
Read more "What in the world is Lena doing?"