MIT has a new tool to combat online harassment: your friends

In light of Facebook, Twitter, Discord, and other social media platforms’ struggles to combat online harassment, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has developed a new tool that might help. It proposes that instead of relying on platforms’ moderators, people start relying on their friends.
The tool is called Squadbox, and it “friend-sources” for moderators to filter messages and support people who are being harassed online. So a blogger w