Mass-reporting an account to wrongfully trigger moderation sanctions.
Simulate coordinated “popular” support using fake accounts or messages.
Coordinating a group to flood comments, manipulate a vote/poll, or harass an individual.
Create a fake identity (photos, backstory) to deceive someone, often for romance or scam purposes.
Photos taken of a person without their knowledge in public places, then shared to sexualize or humiliate them.
Harassment through digital tools (social networks, messaging apps, online games). Continuous 24/7 reach, rapid spread, sometimes anonymous.
Prolonged digital stalking (monitoring accounts, repeated messaging, recreating accounts after being blocked).
Deliberately using a trans person’s former name despite their request not to.
False factual allegation that harms someone’s reputation. To be distinguished from: insult — an offensive remark without a specific factual claim.
When many users simultaneously target a person with insults, mockery, or threats.
Disclosing personal information (address, phone number, workplace) without consent to intimidate or threaten someone.
Create or alter an intimate image or video using AI to make someone appear in it without their consent.
Posing as an opposing group in order to provoke, manipulate, or discredit.
Exchanges of aggressive/insulting messages, often impulsive and brief.
Gaining a minor’s trust in order to exploit them (requesting images, arranging meetings, blackmail).
Making someone doubt their memory or perception in order to control them (‘you’re making it up’, ‘you’re too sensitive’).
Assault filmed and then shared to humiliate the victim.
Repeated behaviors aimed at causing harm (insults, humiliation, threats, isolation). Variants: school bullying, workplace bullying/mobbing.
Offensive/rude remarks without attributing a specific act.
Publishing lists containing personal data to target/harass individuals.
Showering someone with attention at the beginning of a relationship to create dependency and then control them.
Explicitly promising harm (physical, professional, or reputational) to frighten or coerce.
Showering someone with attention at the start of a relationship to create dependency and then exert control.
Publicly disclosing intimate information (orientation, identity, health) without consent.
Sharing intimate images/videos without consent (often to seek revenge or exert pressure).
Unverified information that spreads quickly and can harm reputation.
Bombarding someone with ‘polite’ and repetitive questions to exhaust them, shift the burden of proof, and derail the discussion.
Threatening to release intimate content to obtain money, additional images, or favors.
Deliberately ignoring someone to punish or manipulate them.
Using multiple ‘sockpuppet’ accounts to bolster oneself, intimidate others, or evade sanctions.
Obsessive monitoring and stalking, sometimes extending into real life (tailing, surveillance).
Calling the police to someone’s home by making a false serious report (extremely dangerous).
Deliberately provoking to trigger conflicts and elicit reactions.
Photographing/filming under a person’s clothing without their consent.
Pretending to be a person or organization (via email, social media, messaging) to harm or defraud.
Blaming the victim for the aggression they suffered (‘they asked for it’).
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