{"id":18498,"date":"2020-06-02T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/02\/blackout-tuesday-posts-are-drowning-out-vital-information-shared-under-the-blm-hashtag\/"},"modified":"2020-06-02T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T10:12:00","slug":"blackout-tuesday-posts-are-drowning-out-vital-information-shared-under-the-blm-hashtag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/02\/blackout-tuesday-posts-are-drowning-out-vital-information-shared-under-the-blm-hashtag\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackout Tuesday posts are drowning out vital information shared under the BLM hashtag"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Instagram’s<\/em> #BLM hashtag<\/em> is now full of posts of black squares. <\/em>| Image: The Verge<\/small><\/p>\n

As part of a Blackout Tuesday protest originally organized by workers in the music industry, users on social media, particularly Instagram, are sharing images of black squares in solidarity with black victims of police violence. But many are tagging their posts with the hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #BLM, obscuring a channel that’s being used to share vital information about protests, organization donations, and document police violence.<\/p>\n

The singer Kehlani and rapper Chuck Inglish were among those to call out the problem, retweeting a video of an Instagram feed of black images shared under the #BLM hashtag.<\/p>\n

As the video’s original poster noted: “once you click on the blm hashtag you’re directed to an overflow of black images, instead of other more useful content people could look at for information.” Another user said sharing black screens under the hashtags was “counter-productive … Amplify black voices WITHOUT silencing the movement.”<\/p>\n

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i don’t like this https:\/\/<\/span>twitter.com\/atothebed\/status\/1267706564716216322 <\/span>…<\/p>\n

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my initial thought is it feels dangerous… because once you click on the blm hashtag you’re directed to an overflow of black images, instead of other more useful content people could look at for information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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