As anger against the WEF has grown since the pandemic, various employees and attendees have received increasing levels of abuse with some even receiving death threats. Yann Zopf, head of media at WEF, said about the threats:

“We receive dozens of threats every day on social media and by email. But it also happens that employees and attendees of the forum are approached personally.

Even the application form for jobs at the WEF on its homepage is misused for insults of all kinds."