This movement has spread on social media, where organizations, brands and individuals are posting solemn messages featuring stark black backgrounds, sometimes tagging the posts with #BlackLivesMatter. A video scroll of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag on Instagram proves her point: It's row after row of black squares, with very few posts of note in between. Don't use the #BlackLivesMatter tag, activists sayThere are two issues here: One, the actual tags used on Blackout Tuesday posts. Two, the actual purpose of posting a black image in the first place. And since people have been including the #BlackLivesMAtter tag, in the words of activist Feminista Jones , the protests have been erased from Instagram.

Source: CNN June 02, 2020 12:44 UTC