Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, created and then publicly shared at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women, according to separate estimates of X data by @nytimes.com and @counterhate.com #fightonlinehate #USA www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

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"influencers embody both the privileges and risks associated with hypervisibility of feminine-coded users on social media, modeling strategies for coping with hostility that reinforce the normalization of digital violence." #fightonlinehate journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

HateAid: Scharfe Kritik an US-Regierung wegen Einreiseverbot für deutsche Aktivistinnen Ein früherer EU-Kommissar und die beiden Leiterinnen der Organisation HateAid dürfen nicht mehr in die USA einreisen, weil sie sich gegen Hasskommentare einsetzen. Die EU, Frankreichs Präsident Macron...

Sharp critique of US government for travel bans for German activists: EU rules apply to all companies operating in EU space www.spiegel.de/politik/hate... #fightonlinehate #hateaid #onlinehate #DSA

Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation

In recent months, Trump officials have ordered US diplomats to build opposition to the European Union’s landmark Digital Services Act (DSA), which is intended to combat hateful speech, misinformation and disinformation #DSA #fightonlinehate www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Europe pushes back at Trump's 'authoritarian' sanctions on anti-disinformation figures The State Department's travel bans on five prominent officials and activists have been met with howls of derision across the continent.

European allies reacted with outrage Wednesday after the Trump administration sanctioned online safety campaigners accused of censoring “American viewpoints.” António Costa said "such measures are unacceptable between allies, partners, and friends." #fightonlinehate www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

The newest report on #onlinehate in #Austria is online, by the pioneering non-profit @vereinzara.bsky.social which has been tracking and fighting hate speech online for at least eight years, helping affected people and creating awareness in society #fightonlinehate

In "Lawful but Awful" ZARA documented 1716 cases of online hate between August 2024 and September 2025 in #Austria. Since starting to log #onlinehate, the NGO counted 15113 cases, many tied to racism and sexism, affecting people in multiple ways. #fightonlinehate www.zara.or.at/de/wissen/ak...

16 Days of Activism 2025: End digital violence against all women and girls 1 in 3 women is affected by violence. Join the 16 Days of Activism this year to call on governments to end digital abuse and place online safety at the heart of equality.

Mark your calendar: From 25 November to 10 December 2025, the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-based Violence is putting a spotlight on digital violence. #NoExcuse #fightonlinehate #onlineabuse www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-d...

The Digitization of Harassment: How It Affects Turkish Female Journalists? Online harassment, is a real problem in daily life with offline effects. While harassment is not a new phenomenon in journalism, it continues to increase in intensity every day and is predominantly...

Study confirming for Turkish women journalists what studies have found, but interestingly finding "the normalization of online harassment by some female journalists may bring with it a risk factor that reduces awareness of online harassment." #fightonlinehate www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"Despite much research, hate speech detection in under-resourced languages, particularly regional languages, is limited." - Interesting review on online toxicity by Gautam Kishore Shahi and Tim A. Majchrzak. #fightonlinehate
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14264

And also another chapter in the same Handbook on Gender and Digital Media: Abused and silenced: how free speech and online platforms fail women by Kyla Garrett Wagner and Caitlin Ring Carlson #fightonlinehate www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

Looks like a great new resource for researching online hate: Digital media and emerging tactics of gendered harassment by
Ingrid Bachmann, Dustin Harp and Jaime Loke in the Handbook on Gender and Digital Media www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b... #fightonlinehate

How to analyze cyberbullying on social media platforms The use of social media across all demographic groups has brought the harmful nature of cyberbullying into sharper focus. Detecting cyberbullying on social media platforms has become widely researched...

Sounds interesting to #fightonlinehate: Systematic literature review of 31 articles to identify suitable strategies to improve cyberbullying detection. Three areas for improvement: detection methods, socio-behavioral aspects, regulatory influences. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #onlinehate

Safeguarding women in digital spaces: Legal responses to cyber harassment and objectification on social media Motivation Digital objectification and cyber bullying are a growing menace in the virtual world, with women bearing the brunt of the harassment and compromising their autonomy, dignity and safety. T.....

"New forms of online harassment such as deepfakes and non-consensual sharing of images are out-pacing the law." Especially vulnerable are women of color, LGBTQ+ person and those living in rural or low-income settings, new legal study finds. #fightonlinehate onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Guest lecture by Hannah Ötting, University of Münster, Germany Please join the Department of Communication, the Communication Graduation Student Association, and the Center for Gender and Sexuality for a guest lecture by Hannah Ötting. "I'm ...

Online hate remains a big problem. How can NGOs help? How do targeted persons cope with experiences? Join for a guest lecture by Hannah Ötting of @uni-muenster.de this Wed Aug. 27 @ 5 pm at Wayne State University #Detroit #fightonlinehate @waynestateclas.bsky.social events.wayne.edu/main/2025/08...

Opinion | Amy Klobuchar: I Knew Deepfakes Were a Problem. Then I Saw One of Myself.

"it is urgent for Congress to immediately pass new laws to protect Americans by preventing their likenesses from being used to do harm. ...Why should tech companies’ profits rule over our rights to our own images and voices?" #USA #fightonlinehate #dataprivacyrights www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

ZARA | ZARA ist jetzt Trusted Flagger Wir freuen uns, bekanntgeben zu können: ZARA – Zivilcourage und Anti-Rassismus-Arbeit wurde offiziell als vertrauenswürdige Meldestelle (Trusted Flagger) anerkannt.

As a trusted flagger the non-profit ZARA can help victims of #onlinehate more quickly: ZARA–Zivilcourage & Anti-Rassismus-Arbeit wurde vom österreichischen Digital Services Coordinator "KommAustria" als vertrauenswürdige Meldestelle anerkannt #fightonlinehate #Austria #DSA zara.or.at/de/wissen/ak...

Citizen preferences for online hate speech regulation Abstract. The shift of public discourse to online platforms has intensified the debate over content moderation by platforms and the regulation of online sp

"We find people’s evaluations to be primarily shaped by message type and severity, and less by contextual factors.... Experimental evidence shows that exposure to hateful speech reduces tolerance of unpopular opinions." #fightonlinehate academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Harnessing Inter-Organizational Collaboration and Automation to Combat Online Hate Speech: A Qualitative Study with German Reporting Centers | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction In Germany and other countries, specialized non-profit reporting centers combat online hate speech by submitting criminal content to law enforcement agencies, forwarding deletion requests to social me...

Sounds very interesting: "Based on expert interviews with their staff (N=15), this study finds that most German centers share a collaborative workflow, of which multiple tasks are heavily dependent on inter-organizational exchange." #fightonlinehate #nonprofits dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...