Monica Lewinsky:
In Real Life

As a society, we tend to show each other empathy when we're face-to-face. But online, a culture of cruelty has become the new normal. Today, 47% of Americans have experienced some form of online abuse as a result. But what has become acceptable online is something we would never accept in real life. So we asked ourselves, how can we get people to change this behavior?

"In Real Life" is an anti-bullying PSA brought to you by anti-bullying activist Monica Lewinsky and a coalition of 10 anti-bullying non-profits. To draw attention to the difference between how people behave online versus in real life, we created a social experiment. We found hateful comments written by real people on social media and got actors to reenact them on the street. Every time a hateful scenario was reenacted, there was always a stranger that stepped in to defend the person being bullied. While the bullies and their targets were actors, the people who intervened had no idea they were being filmed. The PSA urged people to rethink their own actions online and to #ClickWithCompassion.