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Researchers Call for Action to Stem Online Hate

Mike O'Sullivan

   LOS ANGELES - As Americans reflect on two mass shootings that claimed
   31 lives last weekend, they're asking how to stop the carnage.

   Researchers at a Los Angeles center devoted to tolerance say part of
   the answer lies in ending hate online. Political leaders and social
   media companies, they add, must help to tone down the hateful rhetoric.

   Rick Eaton, senior researcher at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish
   human rights organization, studies online hate. He points to an
   internet game that encourages players to shoot people crossing the
   border. Another site created with the popular gaming site Minecraft
   shows an animated crematorium for Jews. On a third blogging site called
   Gab, some users applaud hate crimes.

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