Category What is cyber hate

What is included in the term cyber hate? Here, you can learn more and read about what cyber hate is and can be.

Cyber hate is an umbrella term for different internet phenomena, threats, hate, violations, harassment and sexual harassment on the internet. Some things that are included in cyber hate are crimes and others are not.

At the Cyber Hate Assistant and Make Equal, we want to emphasize that it is your experience that is most important when understanding what cyber hate is - even if all types of cyber hate are not illegal, they are still uncomfortable and not okay. The internet is real!

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Facts Catphishing

Catphishing is when a person uses a false identity to get to know you on the internet with the goal of starting a fake emotional or romantic relationship with you.

Facts Domination Techniques

Domination techniques are a form of social manipulation that happens consciously or unconsciously when a person or group wants to maintain their privileged position.

Facts Examples of sexual abuse online

What is sexual abuse online?

Facts Facts Doxing

To map and spread 1. private information 2. information that can identify a specific person or organization via the internet.

Facts Identity theft (spoofing)

Identity intrusion, spoofing, or id-hijacking is when someone uses your name, social security number, or home address to, for example, order products online.

Facts Internet Trolls and dogmatists

Sometimes it can be difficult to know if you’re dealing with an internet troll or a dogmatist. This can be good to know if you want to respond to the person.

Facts Media witch-hunt

A media witch-hunt is negative news about a person/organization/institution that is under close coverage by the media and journalists with an agenda, where the angle of the news is one-sided.

Facts Phishing

Spam, social manipulation and scams — everything to get access to your private information.

Facts Seeing or experiencing domination techniques

Domination techniques and social manipulation are common ways of winning debates, or giving your statements more legitimacy.

Facts Source Criticism

To create a healthy climate on the internet, it is important to practice source criticism. Source criticism means reviewing source material and making an assessment of the credibility of the angle or the claims that are presented in the source of the information.

Facts Statistics and information about cyber hate

Today, many people are exposed to threats, hate, violations, and harassment online. The types of cyber hate that are reported most often are hate crimes.

Facts Trolling

When someone uses your emotions and reactions against you.

Facts Typosquatting

Typosquatting in when someone has posted a face website with a very similar web address to a real website.

Facts What is a bot?

A bot is a computer program that performs automatic tasks. This can for example be collecting email addresses to send spam mail or spread false information on various social media.

Facts What is cyber hate?

Cyber hate is a democratic problem that must be taken seriously and that silences people in relation to who we are, and what we represent.