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Rethink to stop cyberbullying

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Trisha Prabhu |

TED Talks India

• December 2017

Online bullying has real-world consequences, and young software engineer Trisha Prabhu saw a way to help. She invented a tool called ReThink that does one simple, elegant thing: it asks people, before they send a hurtful message, if they really want to say that. And most people, it turns out, say: well, actually, no. Hear the story of this clever invention.

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Online bullying has real-world consequences, and young software engineer Trisha Prabhu saw a way to help. She invented a tool called ReThink that does one simple, elegant thing: it asks people, before they send a hurtful message, if they really want to say that. And most people, it turns out, say: well, actually, no. Hear the story of this clever invention.

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About the speaker

Trisha Prabhu

Innovator, social entrepreneur

Trisha Prabhu is an innovator, social entrepreneur, advocate and inventor of ReThink, a non-intrusive, innovative, patent-pending software product that stops cyberbullying before the damage is done.

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