The 'silence breakers' of #MeToo movement named Time magazine's 2017 person of the year

The "silence breakers" — the women behind this year's #MeToo movement against sexual harassment — are Time magazine's 2017 person of the year.

"The 2017 person of the year is the silence breakers, the voices that launched a movement," Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said today in making the announcement on NBC News' "Today" show.
Felsenthal called the #MeToo movement the "fastest moving social change we've seen in decades."
"And it began by individual acts of courage by hundreds of women, and some men, too, who came forward to tell their stories of harassment and assault," he added.

Social activist Tarana Burke created the "me too" movement a decade ago to help sexual assault survivors in disadvantaged communities.

Actress Alyssa Milano was one of the first high-profile women to use the "me too" hashtag this year after several actresses came forward with allegations of sexual assault against movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
"If you've been sexually harassed or assaulted write 'me too' as a reply to this tweet," she wrote on Twitter in October.

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