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#MeToo goes viral on social media as women raise voice against sexual abuse

The trend began on Sunday after Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano tweeted a post

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A hashtag #MeToo is trending big time on social media, with several women posting their stories of sexual assault using the same hashtag. Women on Twitter are tweeting dismaying accounts of the sexual harassment they faced, in order to bring the enormousness of the problem in light. 

The trend began on Sunday after Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano tweeted a post that read "Suggested by a friend: If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote "Me too" as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem."
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