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Google's efforts to combat online harassment with 'machine learning'
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Sep 19, 2016
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Google's efforts to combat online harassment with 'machine learning'
Social media can be a pretty terrifying place these days.
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Social media can be a pretty terrifying place these days. 

Social media can be a pretty terrifying place these days. 

Online bullying has become a common practice ... and can take a serious toll on its targets.

Now Google is exploring ways to fight back.

A new subsidiary of the company called Jigsaw is gearing up to release new software. 

Wired's Senior Writer Andy Greenberg describes it as the Internet Justice League and writes about it in the October issues of the magazine. It is online now.

He spoke earlier with Take Two's Alex Cohen.