Number of Posts: 20
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Fed up with daughter's negativity
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 27.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, email, Facebook
Summary | A woman seeks counsel about what to do with her grown-up daughter. The daughter is in a fight with the parents (which the parents do not understand) and is emailing them hateful tirades and making disrespectful posts about them on Facebook. It has gotten so insufferable that they have deleted their accounts on Facebook after the daughter has unfriended the father.
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Germany Tells Sites to Delete Hate or Pay Up
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 30.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook, fake news, law, threat
Summary | Germany has the strictest policies when it comes to illegalizing slanderous, threatening, and extremist language from public spaces. Germany has just passed a law that allows them to fine Facebook as much as 57 million dollars if they do not remove offensive content quickly enough from the platform. While some may say this is censorship , German lawmakers claim that respectful online encounters are a necessity for free speech to thrive. Facebook is now working on improving the flagging process for offensive material and are also using artificial intelligence to remove fake news.
Image Description | Blurry man looking at a smartphone with the Facebook logo in the background.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s), smartphone
The Rise and Fall of Yik Yak, the Anonymous Messaging App
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 27.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | childhood, cyberbullying, law, privacy, social media, threat, youth
Summary | The anonymous messaging app Yik Yak became very popular in colleges and schools because it lets people broadcast anonymously to other users near them. The activity on the app has however started to become thretening with college students and children bullying each other and people making bomb threats that have led to multiple evacuations. A feminist group from University of Mary Washington have filed complaint to the University to block Yik Yak on campus because it has been used to harrass and threaten members.
Image Description | An illustration with a face and a smartphone and an image of the creators of Yik Yak.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
To Fight Critics, Donald Trump Aims to Instill Fear in 140-Character Doses
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 27.2.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, politics, social media
Summary | Donald Trump is known for his bullying, he is very good at finding other people's greatest weaknesses and repepatedly hitting them right there. One case of a woman who criticized him on Twitter for being a poor debater has shown how stubbornly he keeps insulting and degrading his critics. He behaves exactly like a stereotypical "mean girl" and recruits his followers to help him with his cyberbullying.
Image Description | Donald Trump speaking to a crowd of people.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Germany springs to action over hate speech against migrants
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 6.1.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook, law, politics, social media
Summary | Facebook has recently decided to comply with German law rather than their own corporate policies when it comes to hate language on their platform contributed by users from Germany. Germany is very strict about prohibiting hate language against minorities. Critics say this is a step in the wrong direction towards censorship.
Image Description | Protest crowd holding a canvas.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), text
Twitter's new rules: An attempt to #StopHarassment
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 4.1.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, cyberbullying, politeness, threat, Twitter
Summary | Twitter is taking steps to address the harrassment happening on their platform. They are planning to temporarily lock or permanently suspend accounts of users who use violent or hateful language. This is meant to target mainly terrorist organizations but some say that it would unjustly target republicans because negative statements about a minority group could be misconstrued as hateful. Twitter has faced criticism before about censoring republicans more than librerals.
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The Week in Tech: Facebook Live, a More Civil Reddit and Yahoo’s Odd Deal-Making
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 9.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook, marketing, politeness, Twitter
Summary | Reddit has for the first time in its existence enabled users to block other users from commenting. This enables censorship of less desirable opinions. Twitter landed the exclusive deal to live stream a football game on their platform, a deal Facebook was initially after since they are better known for their LiveStream service than Twitter. This is a high-profile marketing campaign for Twitter. Also, Yahoo is trying to sell itself.
Image Description | An image of a smartphone showing a livestreamed interview.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone
The Latest Celebrity Diet? Cyberbullying
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 12.10.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, privacy, social media
Summary | Celebrities are using social media to discuss personal issues with their friends/lovers/family. They behave like online harassers since they use social media to publicly humiliate other people they know. Some of celebrities' cyberbullying characteristics are: secret recordings, sexual humilitation, revenge porn, and mob deployment.
Image Description | Photograph of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, and screenshot of one of Kim Kardashian's tweets.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), Twitter
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Newspaper | The Atlantic
Date | 0.9.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, cyberbullying, gender, smartphone, social media, threat, youth
Summary | A US study has conducted a large survey among teenagers and found out that smartphones are impacting their lives significantly. They sleep less, go out less, date less, are less likely to get (someone) pregnant, feel left out more, have more mental health issues, etc. Especially girls are more likely to feel left out because they spend more time on social media and because girls tend to bully each other by ostracization which is very easily achievable in cyberspace. Also, the teenage suicide rate has surpassed the teenage homicide rate for the first time in history.
Image Description | Two illustrations showing a woman falling with a tablet and a woman lying in bed at night looking at her smartphone. Charts showing the results from the US survey.
Image Tags | chart, female(s), smartphone, tablet
Revenge Porn Must Be Criminalized
Newspaper | Huffington Post
Date | 6.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, law, sexting, threat
Summary | There have been more and more cases of people posting intimate photographs of their ex-lovers on the internet. The practice is called revenge porn and it is horrible for the victims: their most intimate images are shared with the whole world without their consent and they cannot really erase the images from the internet afterards. New York CIty is now working on criminalizing the distribution of revenge porn - something that should already have happened long ago.
Image Description | Getty image of hands typing on a laptop.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, hand(s)
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