Time magazine’s 2017 Person of the Year is “The Silence Breakers” who sparked the #MeToo movement.
The magazine’s cover included actress Ashley Judd, singer Taylor Swift and former Uber engineer Susan Fowler.
“The galvanizing actions of the women on our cover … along with those of hundreds of others, and of many men as well, have unleashed one of the highest-velocity shifts in our culture since the 1960s,” the magazine’s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said in a statement, according to NBC’s “Today.”
“Social media acted as a powerful accelerant; the hashtag #MeToo has now been used millions of times in at least 85 countries. … The idea that influential, inspirational individuals shape the world could not be more apt this year. … For giving voice to open secrets, for moving whisper networks onto social networks, for pushing us all to stop accepting the unacceptable, The Silence Breakers are the 2017 Person of the Year,” he added.
President Trump was the runner up.
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— TIME (@TIME) December 6, 2017