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Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness

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Dartmouth College professor Sachi Schmidt-Hori was a narrative consultant on Assassin 's Creed Shadows .

The game features Naoe , a Japanese female assassin and a Black African samurai.

Gamers quickly zeroed in her, attacking her in online forums, posting bogus reviews of her work.

Some tracked down her husband’s name and ridiculed him, too, calling her a “sexual degenerate”.

Dartmouth professor Sachi Schmidt-Hori stopped the "toxic train in its tracks" Most people who become the target of online hate end up retreating to protect themselves, an expert says.

Online forums allow people to post anonymously without seeing how their words are received and algorithms boost more aggressive content.

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Hate speech