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#dcblackout is trending in the US. 447,000 tweets with the hashtag sent in just several hours. They claim communications in or out of DC were shut down to control the protests. But there doesn't seem to be any evidence suggesting a blackout occured. So what actually happened? 
Here's the tweet from the internet monitoring service Net Blocks confirming there was no indication of a mass-scale shutdown in Washington DC last night. So are the viral claims on social media completely made up? Let's take a closer look
This seems to be first account that tweeted the hashtag, at around 23:00 DC time. He/she then asked @Cernovich about it and did not make any other references to the alleged blackout. If anyone has any other evidence of the first use of the phrase or hashtag, please DM me
