How the Parkland Students Got So Good at Social Media
She said she was not bothered by quote tweets, which she saw as simply “a way to
continue a conversation,” a tool that she said that she also used frequently.
But when it was pointed out that one of Ms. Chadwick’s meme tweets instructed her to “stop talking,” she added: “I hope these kids understand
that free speech isn’t just saying what you want to say, it’s hearing what you don’t want to hear.
It’s great to be vocal about your stance but simply telling someone to stop talking doesn’t seem very constructive.”
Delaney Tarr, who had about 500 followers before the shooting and now has close to 97,000, said she believed the tool breaks through the filter bubbles
that keep ideological opponents from hearing each other
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Given their single-minded focus on preventing school shootings, the more prominent Parkland students most often find themselves tangling with conservative politicians
and commentators who support broad gun ownership rights, including Senator Marco Rubio, Ms. Ingraham, the N. R.A.
spokeswoman Dana Loesch and the Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren.
With their consistent tweeting of stories, memes, jokes and video clips, the students have managed to keep the tragedy
that their school experienced — and their plan to stop such shootings from happening elsewhere — in the news for weeks, long after past mass shootings have faded from the headlines.
