TIME’s editor-in-chief on why the Silence Breakers are the Person of the Year.
The actor who went public with the story of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s “coercive bargaining” in a Beverly Hills hotel suite two decades earlier.
The young engineer whose blog post about the frat-boy culture at Silicon Valley’s highest-flying startup prompted the firing of its founder and 20 other employees.
A music superstar’s raw, defiant court testimony about the disc jockey who groped her.
Social media acted as a powerful accelerant; the hashtag #MeToo has now been used millions of times in at least 85 countries.
To imagine Rosa Parks with a Twitter account is to wonder how much faster civil rights might have progressed.
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. »