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In 2021, Microsoft revealed that online civility was not in a good place.
Now, the situation is improving, with new research indicating that online civility is the best it`s been since 2016.
Teen boys, in particular, reported a decrease in harassment.
It`s a mean world out there. And, in a lot of cases, it`s even meaner online, wherein people don the mask of anonymity and get to work bullying each other and generally making life as miserable as possible. But according to Microsoft, the volume of online suffering has seen a decrease this year, helping online civility stats see their best figures since 2016.
A year ago, polling results indicated that the pandemic-ravaged planet we all live on was getting markedly less civil. Now, findings point in a different direction: Things are more civil than they`ve been since 2016. According to the latest Digital Civility Index (DCI) score, this year has nabbed a 65%, which is...
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