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The social activist who coined the term “Me Too” amid sexual assaults and harassment said the overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction in New York is not a setback to the movement she founded but a call they are “prepared to answer.” “This is not a blow to the movement,” Tarana Burke, who founded the “Me Too” movement in 2016, told BBC News. “It is a clarion call and we are prepared to answer that call.” The New York Court of Appeals ruled earlier this week that Weinstein’s conviction should be overturned because the judge allowed prosecutors to call a witness whose accusations w…

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