The Bully’s Pulpit — with Fadi Quran

The sound of bullies on social media can be deafening, but what
about their victims? “They're just sitting there being pummeled
and pummeled and pummeled,” says Fadi Quran. As the campaign
director of Avaaz, a platform for 62 million activists worldwide,
Fadi and his team go to great lengths to figure out exactly how
social media is being weaponized against vulnerable communities,
including those who have no voice online at all. “They can't
report it. They’re not online.” Fadi says. “They can't even have
a conversation about it.” But by bringing these voices of
survivors to Silicon Valley, Fadi says, tech companies can not
just hear the lethal consequences of algorithmic abuse, they can
start hacking away at a system that Fadi argues was “designed for
bullies.”