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In May 2018, The New York Women's Foundation announced their Fund to Support the Me Too Movement and Allies, a $25M commitment over the next five years to provide funding and support survivors of sexual violence.
In September 2018, CBS announced that it would be donating $20 million of former Chairman Les Moonves' severance to #MeToo. Moonves was forced to step down after numerous sexual misconduct accusations.

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Instituting protocols that give sufferers in all industries the ability to file complaints without retaliation.

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The current purpose of the movement is to give people the resources to have access to healing, and advocates for changes to laws and policies. The movement has some highlighted goals which include: processing all untested rape kits, re-examining local school policies, improving the vetting of teachers, and updating sexual harassment policies. A  priority for #MeToo is changing the laws surrounding sexual harassment and assault.

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The movement also spread into the country's educational system. University students started talking about their experiences and exposing teachers and school authorities who had harassed them. This opened opportunities to the young people that didn't feel safe sharing stories that may put their academic career at risk. Legal actions were starting to take place and each allegation of sexual misconduct was begging to be looked at in a deeper and more serious manner.

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The actress Alyssa Milano tweeted out the hashtag #Metoo on October 15, 2017, and by the end of the day it had already been used more than 200,000 times and by the next day, it had 500,000 more users who had used it. On other social media platforms such as Facebook, it was used by more than 5 million people. Many celebrities became open with the topic and the discussion was open for the music industry. This allowed artists to discuss sexual harassment an abuse from other well-known people. Actors started to pull off from movies and projects that included celebrities such as Michael Ferro and others.

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Statehouses in California, Illinois, Oregon, and Rhode Island responded to allegations of sexual harassment surfaced by the campaign. With this, several women in politics spoke out about their experiences of sexual harassment. Detective Leslie Branch-Wise of the Denver Police Department spoke publicly for the first time in 2018 about experiencing sexual harassment by the Denver Mayor. She provided sexually suggestive text messages from the Mayor sent to her. After six years of keeping the secret, Detective Branch-Wise used and mentioned the Me Too movement as an inspiration to share her experience.

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It all started with Tarana Burke. She is a social activist who began using the phrase "me too" in 2006 on the social network platform, Myspace. She started this as part of a campaign that promoted "empowerment through empathy" which included women of color that had experienced sexual abuse. The movement was particular to underprivileged communites but was open to all. In an interview, Tarana Burke mentioned that her motivation was a 13-year-old girl who truster her in telling her that she was sexually assulted.

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Following the millions of stories published on the topic, people began calling out names. There were big exposures of accusations of predatory behaviors from celebrities. After millions of people weren't afraid to speak about such accusations, actress Alyssa Milano encouraged the use of the hashtag: #Metoo in an attempt to draw more attention to the topic.

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During this time in July, a Ukrainian journalist posted a social media post about her sexual harassment story. The post went viral and millions of women and a couple of men in Russia followed posting their personal stories on the issue. This were all attached to the hashtag: #IAmNotAfraidToSpeack

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- https://metoomvmt.org/
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/metoo-movement
- https://www.nytimes.com/series/metoo-moment
- https://www.newyorker.com/tag/me-too

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The hashtag has trended in at least 85 countries, including India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom. Direct translations of #MeToo have been shared by Spanish speakers in South America and Europe and by Arabic speakers in Africa and the Middle East, while activists in France and Italy have developed hashtags to express the attitudes of the movement. Communicating similar experiences and "sharing feelings in some form of togetherness" connects people and can lead to "formation of a process of collective action"

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There has been a discussion about whether the movement is meant to inspire change in all men or just a percentage of them, and what specific actions are the end goal of the movement. Other women have stated #MeToo should examine only the worst types of abuse in order to prevent casting all men as perpetrators, or causing people to become numb to the problem. Many have pointed to a lack of representation of minority women in the #MeToo movement or its leadership.  It has been pointed out that undocumented minority women often have no recourse if they're experiencing sexual violence. there is often social pressure not to report allegations against black men, especially from church and family, because many would view that as a betrayal against their "brothers." Additionally, black women are less likely to be believed if they do speak out.

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This hashtag was brought up with the popularity that the #metoo movement had. Some people used it to emphasize male victims of sexual harassment and abuse, and others using it to emphasize male perpetrators. In January 2019, a lecturer from Hong Kong came out to announce his establishment of a support group aimed at "gathering all men who have suffered from false allegations of sexual crimes to speak out"