Boundless hate. New Europe-wide survey on digital violence shows: Online platforms fail to protect against hate and incitement online
...to make a sustainable contribution in the fight for safe and democratic spaces in the digital.” More information: You can find the complete survey on our website hateaid.org/eu-survey The petition and more information about the Digital Services Act can be found at hateaid.org/petition and hateaid.org/dsa Download PDF...
HateAid warns: Millions of women affected by digital violence! International petition calls on EU to act immediately
...signing the online petition at www.hateaid.org/petition. HateAid will bring the voices of thousands from all over the EU to Brussels and demand effective measures to stop the violence against women online. Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, executive director of HateAid, commented: “For women and girls, social media have been spaces...
Deepfakes and dick pics: EU protects women from digital violence
...be new laws against image-based online violence.” HateAid has been advocating and campaigning for comprehensive protection against gender-based online violence in the political process leading to the new directive. The focus of this commitment has been on criminalising the dissemination of nonconsensual sexualised deepfakes and unsolicited sending of...
#TwitterTrial in Berlin: Gallery
...(President, European Union of Jewish Students) © HateAidDownload Josephine Ballon (Head of Legal, HateAid) © HateAidDownload Avital Grinberg (President, European Union of Jewish Students) and Josephine Ballon (Head of Legal, HateAid) © HateAidDownload Josephine Ballon (Head of Legal, HateAid) and Avital Grinberg (President, European Union of Jewish Students) © HateAidDownload...
Unsatisfied and helpless: New Poll on Digital Violence shows how social media platforms are failing users
...more vulnerable online in comparison to our male counterparts. Already now, many women and people of colour are hesitating to run for office because of experience of sexism, hatred, violence, discrimination and racism. It is crucial that the online platforms ensure effective complain mechanisms for users and that the platforms...
Transparency reports: How social media platforms fail on users’ rights Â
...that option. Some real-life examples of non-user-friendly settings on social media: YouTube has a button for general reports and an additional optional field for a NetzDG report. However, this optional field is very easy to miss. When using Instagram in the web browser, there is only a general...
#Kriegstreiber: With warmonger accusations into the middle of society
...yet, campaigns like this present platforms with a dilemma: On the one hand, they are under no obligation to act. On the other hand, they watch themselves and their algorithms, being misused for targeted and strategic war propaganda. For it is above all polarising content that is frequently shared and...
#Kriegstreiber: How a hashtag spreads propaganda
...as an example. A penchant for hate speech and Kremlin-friendly content: The people behind #Warmonger In our latest research, we analysed posts on Twitter that mention the term “warmonger”. 18,000 times the term was shared between the start of the war in February 2022 and mid-June. Just for comparison:...
EU visit of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen: Protest in Brussels against hate speech, dick pics, and online attacks
...against digital violence: better moderation of posts in social media, and stronger sanctions for sexualised violence online, with a special focus on the abuse of nude photos online.” Thousands of Europeans have already joined HateAid and the civil society alliance of 18 European organisations, including the French initiative Stop...
Digital Services Act could fail millions affected by online violence
...online, HateAid finds it impossible to follow this reasoning, considering how hard and expensive it is to go to a court. Also, no changes were introduced to make communication with online platforms easier for users. HateAid has called on the EU to oblige very large online platforms to establish...