Online Harassment Barely Dips Over Past 2 Years Despite Efforts to Fight It, Finds Survey
Despite efforts to curb bullying, harassment and threats on social media, such behavior hasn't gone down much over the past two years, said a survey of 1,017 adults released Thursday by Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, Rad Campaign and Lincoln Park…
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Strategies. Overall, 22 percent say they experienced harassment in 2016, down from 25 percent in 2014, said a news release. But the survey found online sexual harassment declined by almost half to 27 percent of people this year, while online political harassment nearly doubled to 30 percent of respondents in 2016. Seventy-two percent of millennials are harassed by someone they know and 63 percent of online harassment occurs on Facebook, the survey said. "Clearly we need to institute better tools, algorithms, and policies to support and empower people online, such as better methods for reporting harassment, as well as more effective and timely responses from the social networks themselves," said Rad Campaign's Allyson Kapin, a social media consultant.