How to deal with online harassment — and protect yourself from future attacks

Life Kit

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🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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If you're posting frequently on social media, there's a chance that someday, one of those posts may make you a target of online harassment. Digital security expert Harlo Holmes and artist and independent researcher Ra'il I'nasah Kiam share tips on what to do if that happens — and how to tighten up your privacy online.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is NPR's Life Kit, I'm Maya Aina.
0:04.4	Okay, so, there's this old adage on Twitter coined by user at Maple Cocaine.
0:10.9	It goes, each day on Twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be it.
0:17.6	It's describing this thing that happens. If you're a heavy Twitter user like me,
0:21.5	you do see it every day. Some random, unsuspecting Twitter citizen
0:25.9	tweets something out in all of a sudden, thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of people
0:30.8	are interacting with it. Giving their opinions, posting it on other platforms,
0:36.0	news outlets might even pick it up. Our next guest went viral for wearing an N95 mask,
0:43.6	alone in his office during a Zoom meeting.
0:46.2	They were like, what is he?
0:47.0	What is he?
0:47.2	He was a little Twitter.
0:48.0	And so there's a Caleb who apparently worked at West Elm, the furniture place.
0:52.0	One of the woman's videos went really viral and she put up Caleb's face
0:55.6	and his name and everything.
0:57.0	Kessler posted about her losses on Twitter.
0:58.9	Her tweet, Amazon, is not a library.
1:00.8	It went viral.
1:01.6	Sometimes that's a good thing.
1:03.7	But let's be honest, this is the internet we're talking about.
1:07.2	That person is probably having a bad time.
1:10.1	But it's typically over pretty quick.
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