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If you’re skeptical that street protest can make a difference, consider Harvard political scientist Erica Chenoweth’s research.

He helped rouse voters against Putin that year in unprecedentedly large protests against election fraud.

The monitoring of protests using facial recognition happened this year alone in Hong Kong, in Delhi, in Detroit, and in Baltimore.

That effect isn’t huge, however, and the public hasn’t used that violence to impugn the protests against police violence and systemic racism as a whole.

What has been a minor storyline among left-wing audiences has been dramatically overemphasized by right-wing media because these protests provided plenty of visceral content for online content creators.