Following the sentencing of Bill Cosby in 2018 for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004, bloggers and writers began to flood the internet with stories about “America’s Dad.” According to one writer, “His arrest in late 2015 predated the #MeToo movement, which gained steam following multiple allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, by nearly two years. But Deborah Tuerkheimer, a law professor at Northwestern University and an expert on sexual assault cases, said Cosby’s case, as well as the election of U.S. President Donald Trump in 2016, helped “seed the ground” for the coming wave.” The mostly-online #MeToo and #TimesUp movements played a role in the eventual convicting of Cosby, coming four years after his first arrest.

Tsering Woeser is a Tibetan and Han Chinese writer, activist, poet, and blogger residing in Beijing. Her book, Notes on Tibet, was banned in 2003. Undeterred, Tsering Woeser runs a blog called “Invisible Tibet”, documenting news that she finds through social media and various news outlets. Her postings are written in Chinese which has helped to promote awareness among non-Tibetans. Despite on-going surveillance by security agents in Beijing where she lives with her husband she continues, through her blog and other social media platforms, to shed light on the conditions of Tibetan-inhabited areas that have been generally off-limits to foreign journalists. Her blog has been blocked by China’s censors, but through the employment of firewall-leaping software, Tsering Woeser has managed to bypass the restrictions. She has posted many updates to her growing audience, which as recently as September 2020 totals nearly 141,000 on Twitter. Tsering Woeser and her husband have been placed under house arrest on occasion, notably in response to Tibetan unrest in 2008.