The Biden administration on Thursday launched a new task force aimed at addressing and preventing online harassment and abuse, which disproportionately impact women, young girls, and members of the LGBTQ community.
One of the task force’s chief responsibilities will be to study the link between online harassment, mass shootings and violence against women and other groups.
“We continue to see how some acts of mass violence, the most recent included, have followed expressions of online hate and abuse,” Vice President Kamala Harris said at a White House event kicking off the task force.
Recently accused lone-wolf mass shooters in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas were linked to disturbing internet activity ahead of their massacres.