Online Harassment
40% of internet users have personally experienced online harassment, from the mild to the severe; 73% have witnessed it happen to others.
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40% of internet users have personally experienced online harassment, from the mild to the severe; 73% have witnessed it happen to others.
Nearly three quarters of internet users—73%—have witnessed online harassment. Offensive name-calling and purposeful embarrassment were the most common types of harassment people witnessed. Respondents were asked if they had witnessed the following types of harassment online: 60% of internet users said they had witnessed someone being called offensive names 53% said they witnessed efforts to […]
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