About 1 in 5 Victims of Online Harassment Say it Happened in the Comments Section

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By: Monica Anderson | Pew Research Center

The Reuters news service recently joined other media outlets that have closed or restructured their online comments. Popular Science made headlines last year when it shut down comments. The Huffington Post ended anonymous commenting in late 2013, with its editor calling comments sections one of the “darkest places on the internet.” And the Chicago Sun-Times suspended comments in April until a new monitoring system could be developed.

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