More Americans are being harassed online because of their race, religion, or sexuality

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Online harassment remains one of the internet’s hardest problems to fix, and new data suggests the problem is only getting worse for minority groups. According to a representative survey of American citizens conducted by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), some 35 percent of respondents reported being harassed online because of their racial, religious, or sexual identity; a three percent increase compared to last year’s data.

Overall harassment not related to the individual’s identity was also higher for these groups. LGBTQ+ respondents reported the highest levels of harassment, with 65 percent of these respondents saying they’d been harassed online, followed by 42 percent of Muslim respondents, and 37 percent of African-American...

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