By Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor There’s little question that the rollout of Blackout Tuesday, the music industry’s attempt to take a symbolic pause for the day in a statement of solidarity with the black community, was hasty and more than a little haphazard — but the use of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag by Blackout Tuesday participants has ended up inadvertently suppressing important information about protests, fundraisers and other information important to the movement.
Many social media users have seen their feeds filled with black squares and the hashtag, a number of which seem to be associated with the Blackout Tuesday campaign. “We know that’s it no intent to harm but to be frank, this essentially does harm the message,” activist
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