TY - JOUR AU - Robertson, Ronald E. PY - 2022/08/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Uncommon Yet Consequential Online Harms JF - Journal of Online Trust and Safety JA - jots VL - 1 IS - 3 SE - Letter from the Editor DO - 10.54501/jots.v1i3.87 UR - https://www.tsjournal.org/index.php/jots/article/view/87 SP - AB - <p class="p1">A consistent finding from recent research on harmful online behaviors is that they tend to be concentrated among a small number of individuals. Whether examining misinformation (Grinberg et al. <span class="s1">2019</span>; Guess, Nagler, and Tucker <span class="s1">2019</span>; Allen et al. <span class="s1">2020</span>), radicalizing or partisan content (Hosseinmardi et al. <span class="s1">2021</span>; Muise et al. <span class="s1">2022</span>), or hate speech (Zannettou et al. <span class="s1">2020</span>), a small number of individuals typically accounts for the vast majority of the behavior. Despite this statistical infrequency, the social consequences of such behaviors can be substantial, especially for people targeted by, or within the social networks of, the individuals perpetuating them.</p> ER -