#Online Harassment

#Online Harassment

Several were congratulatory - he's a popular figure in the Park ward of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, having served there for Labour since 2021. But there were also more than 200 posts containing vile abuse, including branding him a paedophile and a terrorist, with another asking how many women and children he had sexually assaulted. The Halifax-born politician was also told to "get out of the UK", "speak English" and another poster said he was a "cancer" who needed to be deported.

Since the advent of social media, there have been main characters - people who everyone seems to be talking about. Ordinary people who suddenly find themselves under a spotlight. People whose lives don't matter beyond the jokes that can be made about them. People who are tossed aside once there is nothing else that can be wrung out of the personal details of their lives.

Jorginho said the 11-year-old was subsequently approached and admonished by a 'large security guard' and was left 'sitting there in tears.'

Don't call yourself a fan if you share racist/homophobic/biphobic/misogynistic/ageist/ableist/parasocial/bigoted comments of any kind. None of us need your hateful 'love.' We all respect and support and love each other and are on the same side. If you can't accept that gtfoh.

Don't call yourself a fan if you share racist/homophobic/biphobic/misogynist/ageist/ableist/parasocial/bigoted comments of any kind. None of us need your hateful 'love'. We all respect and support and love each other and are on the same side. If you can't accept that gtfoh.

It was a tough day for Wes, firstly what happened in the game, secondly the fallout and racist abuse that he got online. Wes is a tough guy, he's a good guy. But it's amazing, we spoke about racism last week. It affects you. It shouldn't exist, whether it's online, verbal, in person.

I think over the years as the women's game has grown, it's opened up more of a platform for people to have their opinion and share their voices. I think unfortunately social media has become a place where people can say whatever they want whether it's good, bad, ugly and sometimes the ugly is really ugly.

Ilia Malinin posted a video on social media Monday juxtaposing images of his many triumphs with a black-and-white image of the U.S. figure skater with his head buried in his hands, and a caption hinting at an "inevitable crash" amid the pressure of the Olympics while teasing that a "version of the story" is coming on Saturday. That is when Malinin is expected to skate in the traditional exhibition gala to wrap up the Olympic figure skating program.

"The producers of Six have chosen to temporarily limit access to the Broadway production's X account following a number of comments made in response to recent Broadway casting news, which we felt crossed the line into bullying," reads a statement provided to Playbill.

"Show some royal love to Queen Dylan Mulvaney, who will be joining the #SIXBroadway 5.0 cast as Anne Boleyn," producers announced last week.

In August 2025, Grok launched an image generator, branded as Grok Imagine, which featured a service geared toward creating nude, suggestive, or sexually explicit content, including computer-generated pornographic images of real women. The feature, which was quickly used to create naked images of celebrities like Taylor Swift, also allowed users to create brief videos, complete with animations and sounds. Musk also rolled out AI girlfriends on the platform: animated personas including female characters with exaggerated breasts and hips that interacted in sexually explicit ways

The Animal Crossing: New Horizons modification, uploaded to the site GameBanana on Saturday (4 January), gives the cartoon Shih Tzu larger breasts and buttocks as well as a thinner waist. Activist and author Parker Molloy highlighted the fan-made addon in a seemingly bewildered post on BlueSky, asking: "Why, though?" Her post received such significant backlash, including a flurry of transphobic death threats, that Molloy not only deleted the post, but her entire Bluesky account.

A Paris court on Monday found ten people guilty of cyberbullying France's first lady, Brigitte Macron. The defendants were accused of spreading false information about Macron's gender and sexuality, including a conspiracy theory that she was born a man. Other comments including false information alleging pedophilia, which the court labeled "particularly degrading, insulting and malicious." Those charged included eight men and two women aged between 41 and 65.

I gave you the opportunity to be a man. You didn't take it, Ryan said. I gave you the opportunity to speak to five and a half million people and prove to them that you are not insider trading. That's a f*cking gift, I might add. A gift and you turned it down. He added, I'm not gonna interview you now, I don't play games, I handle sh*t like a man.

Nguyen, 34, was part of April's historic 11-minute flight, whose crew included pop star Katy Perry, broadcast journalist Gayle King, and journalist and wife of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez. The flight was heavily criticized for its environmental impact and critics questioned its purpose and use of resources.

It made sense in the beginning, after she appeared on the Jumbotron, aghast, in the arms of her boss at a Coldplay concert on July 16, 2025, a moment that caused an international furor. The original TikTok received 100 million views within days. Cabot retreated, trying to make things right with the people who mattered most: her two teenage kids; her employer, the tech company Astronomer;

The Spanish Ministry of Equality has launched an initiative to try to eliminate the use of the term "Charo", a label that originated in Spanish online forums like Forocoches and is used pejoratively to mock feminist women over 30. Charo, a shortened version of Rosario, is actually a very common name in Spain. But referring to someone as "a Charo" has acquired a new meaning in the Spanish vernacular.

I've never had an essay receive that much attention, with over a million views in just a few hours. I stood up straighter. I felt lighter. My step had a bounce, and I felt inspired to keep moving and do even more. This is what writers dream of - creating something that touches a large audience and makes them feel less alone, especially in the wake of what felt like such a tragedy.