Anti-women, anti-Black, anti-Asian harassment growing in online games


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2021 saw a significant uptick in certain types of harassment in online game spaces, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League conducted in cooperation with Newzoo. The survey covered more than 2,200 US gamers up to the age of 45 who play online multiplayer games, nearly 550 of them between the ages of 13 and 17. While 99% of respondents said they had some form of positive social experience while playing online games, it was clear for many their experiences were not uniformly positive. 83% of the adults said they had been harassed while playing online in the...