How Bots and Humans Might Work Together to Stop Harassment
Platforms and news organizations both need to do more with technology to protect people.
by Craig Newmark
May 24, 2017
3 minutes
There’re some really bad people who harass journalists. Women and minorities, especially, are the targets of extreme vitriol. Yet many newsrooms do little or nothing to attempt to protect their employees, or to think through how journalists and organizations should respond when harassment occurs.
Harassers and trolls have multiple motivations, often simple racism or misogyny, or in support of misinformation, or to suppress law enforcement or intelligence operations. Frequently, what appears to be multiple harassers are actually , Twitter bots, or multiple accounts operated by
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