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January 8, 2021

2. Characterizing people’s most recent online harassment experience

Vast majority of people who’ve been harassed online say it occurred on social media

Vast majority of people who’ve been harassed online say it occurred on social media

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2. Characterizing people’s most recent online harassment experience
More than half of most-recent online harassment experiences involved being called an offensive name
About a fifth of online harassment targets ages 18 to 29 say their most recent experience involved physical threats
Vast majority of people who’ve been harassed online say it occurred on social media
Women who have been harassed more likely to say most recent experience was on social media; men more likely to cite online gaming
Younger online harassment targets more likely to say they were harassed online most recently while gaming, messaging or online dating
Women who have been harassed online are three times as likely as men to say their most recent experience was extremely upsetting
Those who experienced more severe forms of online harassment report feeling higher levels of distress
Women online harassment targets are more likely than men to consider their experience to be ‘online harassment’