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group will be tasked with producing within six months a
blueprint detailing actions to address the problem, including
more support for victims, prevention and greater accountability
for aggressors and platforms hosting them.
The task force will be co-chaired by the White House Gender
Policy Council and National Security Council, according to
senior administration officials who previewed the announcement
in a call on Wednesday evening.
The creation of the task force comes in the wake of a mass
shootings in Texas, where the gunman allegedly posted violent
online content before carrying out the bloody rampage.
According to reports from CNN, the Washington Post and others,
Salvador Ramos, who shot and killed 19 children and two adults
in an elementary school in Uvalde, threatened to rape girls and
shoot up schools on social media app Yubo before the attack.
"It's imperative that we commit to better understanding and
addressing the nexus between online misogyny and radicalization
to violence," a senior administration official said.
One in three women under the age of 35 and over half of LGBT
people in the United States report experiencing sexual
harassment and stalking online, according to the White House.
Harris will be joined on Thursday by Attorney General Merrick
Garland, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and tennis star Sloane
Stephens, who publicized a torrent of angry messages she
received on social media, including racist and sexist abuse,
following her loss at the U.S. Open.
(Reporting by Alexandra Alper; Editing by William Mallard)
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