Stop violence against women online! HateAid calls on the EU to act. Join us!
...every third reported, manifestly illegal comment on Facebook remains online. Despite all the demands, the online platforms have not yet implemented effective protection options, instead prioritising their profit. EU politicians can stop this abuse now! Because your digital rights and the regulation of online platforms is currently being negotiated...
Free research in danger: X locks critical voices out
...such analyses. In the future, the European Digital Services Act (DSA) will create a legal basis for this for the first time: the new law provides for access to data from very large online platforms for research purposes, albeit in a very restrictive way. For this to create the hoped-for...
Hatred against women in politics: Insults online acceptable to every third person
...gGmbH The nonprofit organisation HateAid was founded in 2018 and has its headquarters in Berlin. It advocates for human rights in the digital space and stands up against digital violence and its consequences at both social and political levels. HateAid provides support to people affected by online violence in...
Close the gap: Securing women’s voices in politics
... By advocating for protection against online harassment, we promote a strong democracy and a more just society for all.’ Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, HateAid CEO Our democracy functions well only when everyone can participate in public discourse and feel secure while doing so. This is what we...
Mixed feelings: Digital Services Act replaces NetzDG
...by online platforms. These include gender-based online violence, the dissemination of illegal content and electoral processes. So far, however, these rules have not led to more transparency. Therefore, HateAid demands information about the risk assessment reports that very large online platforms have already submitted to the European Commission months ago....
Digital Services Act: With an international petition to the EU 30,000 people call for an end to digital violence against women
...values and the protection of minorities should also be self-evident and enforced in the digital sphere. It is the essential task of political actors to set the legal parameters for the free and open opinion*]}*-forming process. This also means: Obliging platforms to design public communication spaces in a way that...
One election – hate by the thousands
...an alarming report published today by online safety and anti-racism and antisemitism NGOs HateAid (Germany) and LICRA (France). Exactly one month before the French Presidential election, Facebook is full of hate: Thousands of insulting, racist, antisemitic, and misogynist comments can be found publicly on the platform for all to...
Digital Services Act brings new rules for TikTok, X and Co.
...The non-profit organisation HateAid was founded in 2018 and has its headquarters in Berlin. It advocates for human rights in the digital space and stands up against digital violence and its consequences at both social and political levels. HateAid provides concrete support to people affected by online violence in the...
Porn platforms must be designated as Very Large Online Platforms
...freely and harm unmeasurably the women that are displayed. Thus, not including porn platforms among the designated VLOPs would undermine the DSA’s attributions and the European Union’s commitment to improving gender equity online. To us, it is therefore essential that online porn platforms are subject to the extensive...
Stop online hate against women!
...me. My friends don’t understand me. It just happens online, they say. I'll have to worry about friends and career at some point, but now it's about how I survive this. Salwa, journalistin, Hamburg, Germany More in our online magazine Sorry, no posts matched your criteria....