{"id":144,"date":"2025-02-03T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/discoveringstudent\/chapter\/before-the-story-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T14:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:49:34","slug":"before-the-story-2","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/discoveringstudent\/chapter\/before-the-story-2\/","title":{"raw":"Before the Story","rendered":"Before the Story"},"content":{"raw":"This story focuses on what it\u2019s like to be a witness to cyberbullying.\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\r\n\r\nThe good news is that many youth who witness bullying try to help, with 61% of youth claiming they would defend a schoolmate and 89% would defend a close friend.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, this number decreases to 37% of youth who would intervene in a situation involving cyberbullying to defend someone they did not know.\r\n\r\nThe strategies modeled in this story are based on MediaSmarts\u2019 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