As classes, lectures and other educational activities move to videoconference tools during the coronavirus pandemic, 'Zoombombing' has become another vector for organized harassment.
Reports about Zoombombing have grown in recent weeks. On Tuesday night, the University of Southern California sent an email to professors, obtained by NBC News, to share that multiple professors have had Zoom classes"disrupted by people who used racist and vile language that interrupted lectures and learning."
About 30 minutes into the Zoom call, Ratskoff saw that a participant had written the N-word on the background of a Zoom window. Then, someone unmuted and shouted,"Hitler did nothing wrong." Soon after, someone made their background on Zoom a picture of a kid holding"Mein Kampf" and people on the call started shouting,"Heil Hitler."
"This whole situation and the way we are living now feels very new, but this was actually just a reminder that it's exactly the same," he said."It's the same world, the same problems, but in different forms." James O'Keefe, a conservative activist and founder of the media company Project Veritas, which has a history of undercover reporting to expose what he considers left-wing political bias, also tweeted an email address Monday for students to drop recordings of their professors., which collected reports from students about teachers with liberal biases.
"As campuses seek to fulfill the learning mission, they have to remember that faculty and instructors need academic freedom to develop learning spaces that support free and open exchange without a threat of these exchanges harming their employment status," Noble said. Beyond threats of harassment and hate speech over Zoom, professors and other educators who use online conferencing tools are also vulnerable because of the potential for private information about them or their families to be exposed.
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