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Online hate speech in the UK and US has risen by 20% since the start of the pandemic, according to a new report.
Youth charity Ditch the Label commissioned the study, which analysed 263 million conversations in the UK and US, between 2019 and mid-2021.
A teacher who has been the target of abuse on TikTok says others in the profession are being "pushed over the edge" by online harassment.
Contact the Professionals Online Safety Helpline here.
The Duke of Sussex has said he warned Twitter boss Jack Dorsey about political unrest in the US - just a day before the deadly 6 January riots.
A former Facebook employee has told US politicians that the company's sites and apps harm children's mental health and stoke division in society.
Frances Haugen, a 37-year-old former product manager turned whistleblower, heavily criticised the company at a hearing in the Senate.
Facebook has faced growing scrutiny and increasing calls for its regulation.
The company’s hostility to academic scrutiny limits our ability to understand how the platform amplifies political falsehoods
It is hard to see how Davison’s actions fail to meet the government’s definition of terrorism, which includes “the use of threat or action… to intimidate the public”. Examples include serious violence against one or more people, endangering someone’s life or creating a serious risk to the health and safety of the public: tick, tick and tick.
But here is the get-out clause. The definition stipulates that terrorism must be “for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause” and it is often argued that even the most extreme misogyny does not meet that test.
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