Global Witness and many of the activists it surveyed are calling on Meta and its peers to do more to address harassment and misinformation on their platforms. They were so much higher than we expected them to be,” Ava Lee, campaign strategy lead on digital threats at Global Witness, tells The Verge. “It has kind of long been known that the experience of climate activists and environmental defenders online is pretty awful,” Lee says. In the Global Witness survey, nearly a quarter of respondents said they’d been attacked on the basis of their sex. Global Witness says there are concrete steps social media companies can take to address harassment on their platforms.