UPDATE: In the hours after this article's publication, Variety was contacted by several people who believed their Twitter accounts had been suspended for participating in the hashtag-takeover detailed below; in fact, the accounts responsible for two of the tweets embedded in this article have been suspended. While a rep for Twitter was unable to speak directly to this incident, they pointed to this section of the company's rules and policies, which seems to indicate that participating in such activity is not itself a violation, although the individuals may have violated other policies while doing so.
Seven months after K-pop fans famously took over the #WhiteLivesMatter hashtag on social media in an effort to drown out racist online chatter, there's been no shortage of other events that seemed ripe for such a move: the presidential debates, the election, the white riot at the Capitol, and any of countless actions and inactions by former President Trump.
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