…VP will now head an online harassment task force
- Biden gives Harris another responsibility – heading up a task force to fight online abuse and harassment
- Biden to announce task force Thursday and Harris to hold first meeting
- Sloane Stephens, a black U.S. tennis player who has faced racist abuse online, will attend Thursday’s launch with Harris
- Task force being formed to combat the harassment, which disproportionately targets women and minorities
- Online harassment taken on new importance after mass shootings in Texas and New York, which were predated by racist comments online
- Harris also leads defending voting rights and finding root cause of migration
Joe Biden has given Vice President Kamala Harris another job – she will head a task force dedicated to fighting online abuse and harassment.
Biden on Thursday will announce the White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse and Harris will formally launch it by hosting a roundtable in the afternoon.
The administration said the task force was being launched ‘to address online harms, which disproportionately affect women, girls, people of color, and LGBTQI+ individuals.’
It’s the latest task to be handed to Harris, who has a full plate of issues she leads for the Biden administration, including defending voting rights and examining the root cause of migration.
Harris also has taken the lead for the administration in defending reproductive rights and a woman’s right to an abortion after Politico published a draft Supreme Court opinion that, if enacted, would essentially repeal Roe v. Wade – the landmark that upheld a woman’s right to an abortion.
