The state of online harassment

Roughly four-in-ten Americans have personally experienced some form of online harassment in at least one of the six key ways that were measured. And while the overall prevalence of this type of abuse is the same as it was in 2017, there is evidence that online harassment has intensified since then.

• Q&A: What we’ve learned about online harassment
• Online harassment occurs most often on social media, but strikes in other places, too
• About one-in-five Americans who have been harassed online say it was because of their religion
• Some Americans who have been targeted by troubling behaviors online wouldn’t call it ‘harassment’

Experts say the ‘new normal’ in 2025 will be far more tech-driven, presenting more big challenges

Asked to consider what life will be like in 2025 in the wake of the outbreak of the global pandemic and other crises in 2020, some 915 innovators, developers, business and policy leaders, researchers and activists broadly predicted people’s relationship with technology will deepen as larger segments of the population come to rely more on digital connections for work, education, health care, daily commercial transactions and essential social interactions.

Republicans, Democrats at odds over social media companies banning Trump

Overall, 58% of U.S. adults say they think social media companies’ decisions to ban Donald Trump’s accounts from their platforms following rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 were the right thing to do, while a smaller share – 41% – say these were the wrong thing to do.

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