JUNEAU (AP) â Officials in Alaska's capital city are working on measures to prevent disruptions of online public meetings that have included verbal abuse of at least one assembly member.
The use of videoconferences allows the public to continue observing and participating city government meetings during the coronavirus pandemic, but there have been problems, KTOO-FM reported Tuesday.
City officials estimated there have been about a dozen instances of what has become known as "Zoom bombing," or planned disruptions of meetings using the popular Zoom videoconference software.
The method has been used to disrupt public meetings throughout Alaska and elsewhere on Zoom and other conferencing platforms, often with lewd, racist or pornographic material.