People Are Turning To Zoom During The Coronavirus Pandemic — Including Racist Trolls

Zoom meetings are being hijacked by people yelling racist slurs and flooding calls with graphic content.

When she founded WOC Space, Tiara Moore envisioned a virtual place where professional women of color could meet, socialize, and offer support in a safe setting.

"I wasn't even looking at my screen and I hear a girl and she's like, 'I saw this on Twitter," Moore told BuzzFeed News."I said, 'Oh, hey girl!' and she said, 'Yeah, but you should be careful because you can get hacked.'" "I felt personally attacked," Moore said."I was super emotional. I cried and I was like, 'It's 2020, what the fuck!'""It's so heartbreaking and, for me to be promoting this virtual safe space and to be attacked, it's so devastating," she said.Lamar Elementary School principal Erin Honeycutt sets up a “Zoom” class for first through fifth graders.

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