online abuse

The Wikimedia Foundation has been asked by its board to overhaul its safety and compliance standards to better…

Twitter has thrown a lot at its rampant harassment problem over the years, from slapping on more abuse filters to…

Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke wants to stem the spread of hate speech on the internet after several recent…

Nine months after Amnesty International called on Twitter to be more transparent about abuse on its platform, the…

At hearing before the House Energy & Commerce Committee, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addressed politicians’ concerns…

This is getting absolutely nuts. Just a week after Facebook got busted for allowing advertisers to target topics…

Twitter claims it has become a safer site thanks to all its anti-abuse efforts, but there’s no way to tell if that’s…

A nationally-representative study on online harassment released by Pew Research today confirms what most of us…

In February, Gizmodo reported that many Discord users were facing abuse and were given no clear recourse. Among the…

Since the beginning of the internet, online harassment has been a problem. We created this big, beautiful digital…

Online harassment is a serious, but tough problem to try and solve. There is a need for a new system that can ease…

In a closely watched decision that weighs the protection of free speech against protecting people from online abuse,…

“Get a rope & hang yourself.” The tweets are wildly, flagrantly hateful. The kind of offensive language, in fact,…

Twitter is well aware that it’s a breeding ground for online harassment and has done a terrible job stopping it, and…

People have varying thresholds of tolerance for putting up with ignorance, dickishness, and other crap online. What…

Doxxing, and the death threats and swatting that almost invariably follow, is one of the nastiest tools of internet…