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On Wednesday night, photos posted to Twitter appeared to show something borderline unthinkable: Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas boarding a flight to Cancun, Mexico. In the middle of a pandemic. And in the middle of a crisis that had left millions of his constituents without power or clean drinking water.
Surely it must be a mistake, people theorized. But the photos were real. And by Thursday, the Republican senator issued a statement saying that the once-in-a-generation ice storm that was endangering people all over his state had also canceled school, and his daughters wanted to go on vacation. He returned home Thursday afternoon and called the trip “obviously a mistake.”
On Wednesday night, photos posted to Twitter appeared to show something borderline unthinkable: Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas boarding a flight to Cancun, Mexico. In the middle of a pandemic.
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Throughout 2020, there has been a notable increase in social media activism â many people share posts that promote a call to action or raise awareness about an issue, from harm reduction to workersâ rights, to the problems with the justice system.Â
With restrictions on meeting up in large groups in the midst of a pandemic, sometimes sharing information is the most someone can do. Social media provides a platform for voices of community-based outreach initiatives, which rely on crowd-sourcing to fund their programs that assist community members in need.Â
An important aspect of this type of aid is that it is separate from large, organized charity groups. People participating in local crowd-sourcing initiatives or smaller social media pages focus their reach onto local members of the community and often have more concrete goals in lobbying local officials to change city or town policies that negatively affect the disadvantaged population.Â
Throughout 2020, there has been a notable increase in social media activism — many people share posts that promote a call to action or raise awareness about an issue, from