{"id":222947,"date":"2022-10-16T16:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=222947"},"modified":"2022-10-16T17:57:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T17:57:03","slug":"alyssa-milano-and-tarana-burke-marked-the-5-year-anniversary-of-metoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/alyssa-milano-and-tarana-burke-marked-the-5-year-anniversary-of-metoo","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Me Too&#8221; Creator Tarana Burke And Alyssa Milano Marked The 5-Year Anniversary Of #MeToo Going Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion of sexual assault. Alyssa Milano and &#8220;Me Too&#8221; creator Tarana Burke marked the five-year anniversary of the viral hashtag. Sylvain Gaboury \/ Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Back in 2017, after the Harvey Weinstein story first broke, Alyssa tweeted, &#8220;If you&#8217;ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write &#8216;me too&#8217; as a reply to this tweet&#8221; &#8212; sparking the viral &#8220;Me Too&#8221; hashtag into the popular consciousness. If you&#8217;ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write &#8216;me too&#8217; as a reply to this tweet. @Alyssa_Milano 08:21 PM &#8211; 15 Oct 2017 Five years later, Alyssa retweeted her original post along with &#8220;#MeToo.&#8221; #MeToo https:\/\/t.co\/LAp37QBqYU @Alyssa_Milano 03:21 PM &#8211; 15 Oct 2022 In an essay for Time on the anniversary of the hashtag, Tarana wrote, &#8220;When #MeToo went viral on Oct. 15, 2017, millions of people around the world made a courageous decision to reveal their darkest secrets. The sheer number&#8212;12 million responses on social media in 24 hours &#8212; ensured that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;More than any law that has been passed or policy that has been changed in the past five years, this movement has created visibility and community for those of us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[8,105],"class_list":["post-222947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety","tag-public-safety","tag-social-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}