Around 37 percent of Americans were subjected to severe hate and harassment online in 2018, according to a new study by the Anti-Defamation League, up from about 18 percent in 2017. And over half of all Americans experienced some form of harassment according to the ADL study. Facebook users bore the brunt of online harassment […]
View More 2018 really was more of a dumpster fire for online hate and harassment, ADL study findsCategory: Bullying
Tech platforms called to support public interest research into mental health impacts
The tech industry has been called on to share data with public sector researchers so the mental health and psychosocial impacts of their service on vulnerable users can be better understood, and also to contribute to funding the necessary independent research over the next ten years. The UK’s chief medical officers have made the call […]
View More Tech platforms called to support public interest research into mental health impactsFirst Lady picks a student bullied for having the name ‘Trump’ to be her guest at State of the Union
When President Trump delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, First Lady Melania Trump will be flanked by more than a dozen invited guests in the balcony — and one of them is raising eyebrows.
Most of the 13 guests scheduled to sit with FLOTUS are expected choices: a young girl who has survived cancer, the father of a fallen military member, a first responder, and a synagogue member who survived the Tree of Life mass shooting in Pittsburgh.
But one young man, meant to represent FLOTUS’ “Be Best” anti-bullying campaign, stands out for one very specific reason.
New: One of @FLOTUS’ guests at the State of the Union tomorrow is a 6th grader named Joshua Trump, who “has been bullied in school due to his last name” pic.twitter.com/uNJvbLAZEh
— Monica Alba (@albamonica) February 5, 2019 Read more…
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After football-playing girl gets bullied, Patriots player gifts her Super Bowl tickets
When the New England Patriots heard there was a girl from New Hampshire that was being bullied for playing football, Julian Edelman stepped up to show that the team had her back.
Dejah Rondeau is a seventh grader from Exeter, New Hampshire (a.k.a. Patriots country) who plays quarterback and unfortunately has been facing some bullying simply because of her gender. After the team caught wind of all this, they invited her to visit Gillette Stadium and play catch with her favorite player, Edelman.
7th grade quarterback Dejah Rondeau wears no. 11 in honor of @Edelman11
When he heard she was getting bullied at school, he had a #SuperBowlSurprise for herpic.twitter.com/NVyhkfv8Hr
— New England Patriots (@Patriots) January 29, 2019 Read more…
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View More After football-playing girl gets bullied, Patriots player gifts her Super Bowl ticketsMelania Trump believes she’s the most bullied person in the world. Hmm.
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First Lady Melania Trump recently revealed that her “Be Best” campaign is inspired by personal experiences.
In an interview with ABC News, Melania discussed social media and the reasons why she’s so passionate about focusing her efforts on ending cyberbullying.
“I could say I’m the most bullied person on the world,” Melania explained. When asked if she truly believed that claim to be accurate, she replied, “One of them, if you really see what people saying about me.”
EXCLUSIVE: First lady Melania Trump says her “Be Best” policy platform targeting online bullies is personal. “I could say that I’m the most bullied person in the world,” she tells ABChttps://t.co/iiEv5Z3ijv pic.twitter.com/CWZ7g9by27
— ABC News (@ABC) October 11, 2018 Read more…
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View More Melania Trump believes she’s the most bullied person in the world. Hmm.Instagram is using new tools to detect bullying on the platform
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Instagram is taking further steps to tackle bullying on its platform.
The social network is employing machine learning to help proactively detect bullying in photos, which will then be reviewed by a human moderator.
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An Instagram spokesperson said its bullying classifier detects “attacks on a person’s appearance or character, as well as threats to a person’s well-being or health” in a photo.
If a human moderator deems the photo is in breach of the platform’s community guidelines, the photo will be removed, and the poster will be notified of its deletion and told why. Read more…
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Pew: A majority of U.S. teens are bullied online
A majority of U.S. teens have been subject to online abuse, according to a new study from Pew Research Center, out this morning. Specifically, that means they’ve experienced at least one of a half-dozen types of online cyberbullying, including name-calling, being subject to false rumors, receiving explicit images they didn’t ask for, having explicit images […]
View More Pew: A majority of U.S. teens are bullied onlineHow 4 teens took on bullying — and won
Natalie Hampton, Sanah Jivani, Peyton Klein, and Tori Taylor share one thing in common: They all experienced or witnessed bullying as teens.
As they tried to make sense of what they’d personally endured or watched others live through, the four …
Tall Poppy aims to make online harassment protection an employee benefit
For the nearly 20% percent of Americans who experience severe online harassment, there’s a new company launching in the latest batch of Y Combinator called Tall Poppy that’s giving them the tools to fight back. Co-founded by Leigh Honeywell and Logan Dean, Tall Poppy grew out of the work that Honeywell, a security specialist, had […]
View More Tall Poppy aims to make online harassment protection an employee benefitTwitter acquires anti-abuse technology provider Smyte
Twitter this morning announced it has agreed to buy San Francisco-based technology company Smyte, which describes itself as “trust and safety as a service.” Founded in 2014 by former Google and Instagram engineers, Smyte offers tools to stop online abuse, harassment, and spam, and protect user accounts. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this […]
View More Twitter acquires anti-abuse technology provider SmyteMillie Bobby Brown shuts down bullies in no-nonsense MTV Awards speech
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Five days after leaving Twitter after she became the target of a homophobic meme, Millie Bobby Brown has addressed bullying in her MTV Awards speech.
The Stranger Things star picked up the award for Best Performance in a Show on Monday. She couldn’t attend in person, so instead shared the video above.
After thanking various people for the award, Brown took a moment at an end to address the issue of bullying.
“Finally, since I know that there are many young people watching this — and even to the adults, too — they could probably use the reminder that I was taught, if you don’t have anything nice to say, just don’t say it,” said Brown. “There should be no space in this world for bullying, and I’m not going to tolerate it. And neither should any of you.” Read more…
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Victims of bullying unite in ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ photo project
Sometimes a kid needs to feel like a superhero.
Inspired by Avengers: Infinity War, photographer Josh Rossi created a new project that turned kids who have been victims of bullying into superheroes, letting them forget about their daily struggles and…