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#onlineabuse — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #onlineabuse, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Retail Gazette: Lush launches campaign highlighting harm caused by social media. “Lush is looking to spotlight the harm caused by big social media platforms in its new campaign, which is now live across all of its stores in the UK, EU, USA and Canada. The retailer left the major social media platforms, Snapchat, X, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook almost five years ago. And since then, the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/retail-gazette-lush-launches-campaign-highlighting-harm-caused-by-social-media/
  2. An $18bn settlement – and Zuckerberg barely blinked. The tech titans must be stripped of their power, and soon | Jonathan Freedland
    By Jonathan Freedland

    Those who said Meta harms children struck a blow, but the ability of big tech to gouge profits and cause harm is barely diminished. That’s the battle to come

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #Meta #MarkZuckerberg #Facebook #Instagram #Technology #Worldnews #Socialmedia #Digitalmedia #Children #Onlineabuse #Internetsafety #Mentalhealth #TheGuardian #JonathanFreedland

  3. Ars Technica: Racist comments targeting politicians tripled since Meta relaxed its rules. “The researchers analyzed about 8 million Facebook comments and found that abusive and racist comments targeting both Republican and Democrat lawmakers tripled in the six months after the new rules were put in place. Some categories of abusive comments documented by the researchers saw even sharper rises, […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/13/ars-technica-racist-comments-targeting-politicians-tripled-since-meta-relaxed-its-rules/