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How Minneapolis Is Making Social Media More Political
['Monica Potts', 'Virginia Heffernan', 'Greg Sargent', 'Nicholas Slayton', 'Aaron Regunberg', 'Edith Olmsted', 'Hafiz Rashid', 'Malcolm Ferguson']
New Republic
Stephanie McKenna has a 9-to-5 day job but also posts travel content on social media, and she’s been trying to grow that into a business.
She decided to take a break after the election to grow her brand, but the respite she’d planned for herself didn’t last long.
“Then everything that happened in Minneapolis just kind of changed.
She posted a series of photos of her old dogs with comments about the Trump administration’s misdeeds and the slide into fascism.
But many felt that if they took the opportunity to speak up, it might encourage others to do the same.