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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. 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/