In an article that Monica Lewinsky originally wrote for the Encyclopædia Britannica Anniversary Edition: 250 Years of Excellence (2018), she called for open and public discussion of the problem of cyberbullying. “We have addressed and fixed a myriad of social problems that have vexed our society in the past,” she explains. “Through a combination of the social values of compassion and empathy married with increasing advances in technology, we can do so again.”