Last week, I had shared about how the Asian and Chinese population was starting to get very worried about bullying toward their race amid the COVID-19, also known as Coronavirus. Unfortunately, according to a report, hateful online abuse toward the Asian and Chinese population has increased by 900%. The report stated, “Toxic tweets are using explicit language to accuse Asians of carrying the coronavirus and blaming people of Asian origin as a collective for spreading the virus.”
During these scary and unfortunate times, online bullying should not be one more thing anyone has had to worry about. Additionally, there has been a 70% increase of toxic comments and posts due to the coronavirus between kids and teens. With more and more time spent on social networks due to social distancing and safer-at-home orders, online hate speech and cyberbullying will only continue to go up.
To learn more about the report and what the startup L1ght has found, go to:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/cyberbullying-asian-people-hate-speech-coronavirus/
LIS 4022 Spring 2020 