How to protect yourself from online harassment

This article advises individuals on reducing exposure to online harassment by proactively auditing and minimizing their public personal data, using tools like Consumer Reports’ Permission Slip and Google’s Results about you, and escalating to regulators when necessary; it also emphasizes securing accounts with unique passwords, a password manager, and multifactor authentication, and suggests enlisting friends for tedious takedown tasks, highlighting Malwarebytes’ free Digital Footprint Portal as a starting point for discovering exposed information.