Olivia Munn says she experienced ‘Zoombombing’ during call with AAPI community members

Olivia Munn mentioned she skilled “Zoombombing” throughout a digital seminar she hosted for members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander, or AAPI, group.

Zoombombing is a type of on-line harassment through which somebody hijacks a bunch video name to point out one thing inappropriate or surprising. The offensive intrusions turned extra widespread as many gatherings moved on-line after the coronavirus pandemic hit.

Munn mentioned the Zoombombing occurred whereas she was on a name with the Nationwide Asian Pacific American Girls’s Discussion board and the Asian American magnificence model Cocokind to debate find out how to mitigate and deal with violence towards the AAPI group.

“It was a cowardly and unconscionable act,” Munn wrote on Instagram.

“Whereas it momentarily disrupted our occasion, we later resumed as a result of these malicious acts is not going to cease the dialog. We had been communing to have a good time, elevate and shield the AAPI group and we had been subjected to a hate crime in actual time,” she wrote.

“Low cost techniques like these gained’t cease our quest for equality, fairness, and to cease Asian hate,” she wrote.

The incident will likely be reported to the FBI, the Nationwide Asian Pacific American Girls’s Discussion board and Cocokind wrote just lately on Instagram. A spokesperson for the FBI didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Munn is certainly one of a number of celebrities who’ve spoken out towards the wave of anti-Asian violent assaults.

Anti-Asian hate crimes elevated by greater than 73 % in 2020, based on corrected knowledge the FBI launched in October. That was a disproportionate rise in comparison with hate crimes normally, which rose by 13 %.

The dying of Michelle Go after she was shoved in entrance of an oncoming prepare in New York Metropolis this month left the Asian American group feeling a way of tragic loss.