A new analysis, carried out by Amnesty International across 59 counties, has found that three out of five child and young human rights defenders face online harassment in connection with their activism.
More than 1400 young activists participated in the survey conducted as a part of Amnesty International’s global campaign to “Protect the Protest.” Of those, 400 youth activists aged between 13 to 24 years agreed to the publication of their data.
The findings confirmed that they faced harassment in the form of hateful comments, threats, hacking and doxing which is often linked to offline abuse and political persecution often perpetrated by state actors with little or no response from Big Tech platforms resulting in the silencing of young people.
The survey respondents said they faced the most abuse on Facebook, with 87 percent of the platform’s users reporting experiences of harassment, compared to 52 percent on X and 51 percent on Instagram, Amnesty International said.
