Algorithms may fail at times but squads of friends can help people fight online harassment and cyberbullying better says a study. While current tools for harassment such as blocking users or filtering trigger words partially helps a lot of online mistreatment is so subtle that an algorithm might not pick up on various cues. To reach this conclusion a team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used Squadbox a new crowdsourcing tool that enables people who have been the targets of harassment to coordinate squads of friends to filter messages and support them during attacks. According to senior author and MIT Professor