Women, particularly young women and women of color, are disproportionately targeted. On Thursday, the company publicly released an artificial intelligence tool, called Perspective, that scans online content and rates how “toxic” it is based on ratings by thousands of people. For example, you can feed an online comment board into Perspective and see the percentage of users that said it was toxic. Other organizations, such as TrollBusters and Crash Override Network, are support groups for people who have experienced harassment online. The company also mined the comment sections of Wikipedia and collected data from victims of online harassment who had kept a record of their experiences.

Source: Washington Post February 23, 2017 12:02 UTC