Facts Support the person who is subjected to cyber hate
There are many ways to support and help a friend who is subjected to cyber hate.
You can actively work and help to search for and gather digital evidence, take over your friends accounts and sort through information that they have found. You can also show that you are there for your friend, listen, follow along to visits to the police station, and regularly follow up and ask how your friend is feeling.
Advice Offer to be a witness of a crime on the internet!
Contact Victim Support Sweden, they help witnesses, relatives and victims. If you are unsure whether it is a crime, and the Cyber Hate Assistant can't support you in this, Victim Support Sweden can answer these types of questions.
Advice Gather digital evidence
Document and save everything that can be used to investigate what has happened.
Advice Find cyber hate on the internet
If you suspect that there are hateful or offensive things written in more places on the internet, it can be a good idea to do research and find these.
Advice Hide offensive comments
Hide or report offensive comments. Cyber hate is triggering, do not leave harassment or violations on your page. On Facebook, there is the possibility to hide comments instead of deleting them. Then, the comments are visible to the person who wrote it + their friends, but not to anyone else. If you are going to report the police, it is important that the comments are not deleted. Deleting a comment can also trigger the person writing to write more.
Advice Ask and regularly follow up with how your friend is doing!
Advice Take over your friends social media if the person is exposed to a hate storm
Sort through and forward only normal messages to your friend. Having to read cyber hate aimed at yourself is reliving the violations and is exhausting.
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