2018 on Social Media: Trump, #MeToo and ‘Black Panther’ Lead Online Conversations

The world lived out some of the biggest moments of 2018 on social media, from the Winter Olympics to the tweets of President Donald Trump to the loss of such icons as Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. 

The 2018 roundups from Google, Instagram and Twitter reveal the most discussed moments, topics and people of the year. Korean pop group BTS, for example, dominated on multiple platforms, while movements like #MeToo and March For Our Lives made an impact across social media. 

THR parses the data of what took the Internet by storm in 2018.