Cyberbullying

English actress Millie Bobby Brown reportedly deactivated her Twitter account Wednesday in response to being cyberbullied. Brown, 14, was the target of multiple homophobic memes. It's uncertain how the memes first surfaced, but several Twitter users posted tweets that portrayed her in a negative light. Photos taken from Brown's Snapchat were modified by users alleging she made a series of offensive anti-gay comments. Others simply shared their alleged experience with homophobia or racism from Brown. There were some users who suggested that this was meant to be a joke . Many of the tweets were linked to the hashtag #TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown, which was first created by Twitter user @KelsFiona in November 2017. She took to Twitter after she allegedly had a bad encounter with the Stranger Things actress. "I saw Millie Bobby Brown in the airport and asked for a pic and she said 'only if you remove the hijab,'" the now-suspended user wrote at the time . "I said it's my faith … [Read more...] about Millie Bobby Brown Deletes Twitter Over Cyberbullying

Zamzami Zainuddin Kuala Lumpur   ● Tue, January 17, 2023 2023-01-17 07:27 0 5c4ec6c0663df738e36394020c58b281 2 Academia hoax,fake-news,election,school,curriculum,citizens,social-media Free "Digital citizenship" is using technology and social media ethically and responsibly. In today's digital age, it is very common for misleading information or hoaxes to spread swiftly through social media and other online channels. As a result, individuals may make judgments based on inaccurate or misleading information, which can have severe repercussions. To address such issues through an educational approach, a course on digital citizenship in schools or universities can teach students how to identify false news and prevent it from spreading. A digital citizenship curriculum can minimize the spread of fake information, or hoax, by teaching individuals how to access online information sources and content wisely. Students will be taught how to evaluate the sources and … [Read more...] about The urgency of digital citizenship curriculum in combating hoaxes

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has issued fresh social media guidelines for its more than 3 lakh jawans and officers. According to an official communication, the force has also warned its jawans and officers not to vent out anger on social media as it attracts disciplinary action. “It has come to the notice that force personnel are taking recourse to social media platforms to vent their personal grievances which is in violation of CCS conduct Rules 1964 and may attract disciplinary action," Gyanendra Verma, Inspector General (Intelligence), has written in his letter which says the communication has been released with the approval of the director general of CRPF Dr Sujoy Lal Thaosen. The force has also said that if required, the personnel can put forth their grievances on institutional platforms. The CRPF top brass has also observed that ignorance about privacy settings on social media platforms is rendering personnel vulnerable to cyberbullying and harassment. The … [Read more...] about ‘Share Grievances on Institutional Platforms’: CRPF Issues Fresh Social Media Guidelines for Personnel

A school in the city of Tomsk, in Siberia, Russia, was evacuated on Thursday afternoon after a teenager brought a grenade into school for a "life safety" class. More than 1,000 students and staff were evacuated from the school after the 14-year-old student brought in a grenade that he said he had purchased on the internet at the start of the year as a "souvenir," Russian daily newspaper Izvestia reported. Law enforcement officials who arrived at the scene said the grenade was a dummy. The teenager explained that the grenade he had purchased arrived "in deconstructed form" and so he decided to bring it to class in the hopes that his teacher "would help put it together." The subject "Fundamentals of Life Safety" is compulsory in Russian schools. It teaches students the basics of civil defense, healthy living, natural or technological disaster relief, basic survival skills, and how to fight cyberbullying. Russia's education minister, Sergey Kravtsov, said in November that a … [Read more...] about Teen brings grenade into class, sparks mass evacuation of school

B.L. was angry. It was the end of her freshman year in high school and she’d just been informed she had not made the varsity cheerleading squad for the second year in a row. She’d be junior varsity again as a sophomore. She and a friend were out shopping. B.L. — the way she is referred to in court papers because she is a minor — grabbed her phone and, using Snapchat, a social media platform on which posts are ephemeral and self-deleting after 24 hours, she, uh, expressed herself the way high school students will. “F— school. F—softball. F— cheer. F— everything,” she wrote, spelling out the offending words. In an accompanying photo, she and her friend stuck out their tongues and raised their middle fingers. Advertisement The post wouldn’t have caused much disruption or outcry — that’s the way high school kids talk, right? — except that one classmate took a screenshot of it and showed it to her mother, who was a coach on the cheerleading team. Next thing B.L. knew, she … [Read more...] about How a cheerleader’s angry social media post landed before the Supreme Court

The announcement of Ektaa R Kapoor’s upcoming cult classic Love Sex aur Dhokha 2 on Bigg Boss 16 undoubtedly left the audience in an absolute surprise as the content czarina was seen opening various unknown facts about the film. As the audience got to know that one story is based on the format of Bigg Boss, the other is said to be inspired by a gamer. Having left the audience in a jungle of thoughts about this gamer, it is now being said that this story might be inspired by Carry Minati. However, there is no official confirmation to this so far. The young internet sensation, Ajay Nagar is profoundly famous as Carry Minati, his virtual name. Carry Minati gained popularity when his roast video titled “YouTube vs TikTok - The End" caused controversy on YouTube India. The video was widely seen by the audience but was removed by YouTube for violations against the platform’s terms of service, citing reasons such as cyberbullying and harassment. It is being said that this maybe one of the … [Read more...] about One of The Stories of Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 Inspired by Carry Minati? Deets Inside

The government recently released the details related to the Grievance Appellate Committees (GAC) that will look into complaints against online platforms, including social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter. The portal to file the complaints is expected to be activated on March 1. Last year, Rajeev Chandrasekhar , Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Electronics and Information Technology, had said the GACs were being formed as there were recurring complaints from those who use online platforms that they didn’t know who to reach to address a problem. He said it was quite “bizarre” that the social media platforms dealing with millions of people were not making any effort to be accountable to their consumers. “A lot of these platforms just appointed ‘naam ke vaste’ somebody to occupy the position of Grievances officer,” the Union Minister noted, adding that either the person became just a “letter box” or they appointed someone who was “not … [Read more...] about Shoot on this ‘Site’: From March 1, Complain Against FB, Twitter on Govt Portal; Panel Details Out