In the third quarter of 2024, Facebook took action on 7.6 million pieces of bullying and harassment related content, down from 7.8 million in the previous quarter. Overall, the first quarter of 2022 saw the highest ever number of bullying and harassment related pieces of content removed by the platform. Between the first quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021, the removal of bullying and harassment content increased significantly.
In the first half of 2024, the Italian authorities covering cyber crime and online safety recorded 176 cases of online bullying targeting minors in the country. Cases against teenagers and older kids aged between 14 and 17 years made up over 67 percent of the total cyberbullying cases. The cases concerning children aged between 10 and 13 years were 51, while cases where victims were nine years or younger were seven during the last examined period.
In the 2021-22 school year, about 27.7 percent of female students in the United States between the ages of 12 and 18 reported that they were bullied either online or by text. This is compared to 14.1 percent of male students who were cyberbullied in that year.
According to a survey conducted in South Korea in 2024, around **** percent of elementary, middle, and high school students who suffered from school bullying answered that they experienced verbal abuse. Physical violence and ongoing bullying each had a **** percent response share.
The share of primary and lower secondary school pupils in Norway who reported that they had been bullied reached new records in the school year 2023/24. Nearly 11 percent of 7th graders and eight percent of 10th graders had been bullied two to three times per month by other pupils.
According to a survey conducted in South Korea in the spring of 2024 among elementary, middle, and high school students, 7.4 percent answered they suffered from school bullying in the form of cyber violence. While this was an increase compared to the previous survey round, it was still one percentage point less than in fall 2022.
According to a March 2024 survey, one in ten internet users in Canada had experienced cyberbullying, while a further one in ten users reported witnessing cyberbullying. Overall, 74 percent of respondents said they had not experienced or seen cyberbullying.
Between January and June 2024, over 1.1 million X (formerly Twitter) accounts were suspended due to abuse, harassment, and hateful content. Just 154 of these suspensions were automatically flagged by machine learning systems.
Finding the best public school is a priority for many families. A good education is important to these families, who may even choose where they purchase or rent housing to ensure their children are in the best public school systems.
There are about 51 million public school students in the United States. While far from perfect, public schools play a vital role in their respective communities. Public schools improve their communities and the welfare of children. Public schools welcome all children, no matter their income level, disability, or previous academic performance. Many schools provide school meals, which helps children from food-insecure families get nutritious food every day. The better the public school, the more likely students will achieve higher educational attainment.
While there is no comprehensive way to measure what public schools are the best in the nation, a few surveys look at data, including high school graduation rates and college readiness, to determine which states have the best schools.
States with the Best Public Schools WalletHub ranked each state's public schools for "Quality" and "Safety" using 33 relevant metrics. Metrics included high school graduation rate among low-income students, math and reading scores, median SAT and ACT scores, pupil-teach ratio, the share of armed students, the number of school shootings between 2000 and June 2020, bullying incidence rate, and more. Based on these metrics, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey have the best public schools in the United States.
In the school year 2023/24, 6.1 percent of upper secondary students in Norway stated to have been bullied at least two to three times a month, the highest during the period under consideration. The share was at its lowest during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the first half of 2024, the platform manipulation issue was the most prevalent community guideline violation on Discord, with over 15 million reports submitted by users on the platform. Reports related to harassment and bullying amounted to approximately 5.59 million. Discord users can send and receive files and images in private chats, but also post content on community boards called "servers" that can only be accessed by invitation.
In 2022, bullying was more common among Indonesian children and adolescents in junior high school compared to other educational levels. About 35.55 percent of fifth-grade students reported experiencing bullying, whereas 30.31 percent of high-schoolers shared that they had been bullied.
According to a survey conducted in Singapore in April 2024, cyberbullying and sexual content were the most common types of harmful content encountered online, with 45 percent of those surveyed. Inciting racial and religious tensions followed, with 42 percent of respondents.
In 2024, just over three percent of respondents who identified as being of diverse sexuality, and had been employed in their job for less than one year said they had experienced negative behaviors. Nearly 17 percent of diverse sexuality employees who had been in their job between seven and ten years reported they had experienced negative behaviors.
The total number of bullying cases among students reported by schools in Japan peaked at around ******* in the academic year 2023. The number of acknowledged bullying cases in the country increased dramatically in 2012, followed by the enactment of the anti-bullying legislation to identify bullying at an early stage, which was implemented the year after.
In 2024, just under ten percent of respondents who identified as being of diverse sexuality, and were employed in a senior staff position said they had experienced negative behaviors. Nearly 15 percent of trans and/or gender diverse employees who were employed in a senior staff position reported they had experienced negative behaviors.
Data on the direct results of bullying and the proportion of bullying victims who experienced these results in the United Kingdom (UK) as of 2020 shows that the most common reported result was depression and anxiety, with 36 and 44 percent of respondents stating so, respectively. These impacts were followed closely by suicidal thoughts, with 33 percent of respondents having stated to develop such thoughts because of bullying.
According to a survey conducted among South Korean students on their experience of cyber violence and bullying in 2023, roughly 21.6 percent of respondents stated to have been victim of cyber violence without being a perpetrator themselves. That year, approximately 40.8 percent of respondents answered to have experienced cyber violence overall, around 0.8 percentage points less than in 2022.
In 2024, just over two percent of LGBTQ+ respondents who worked in the federal government sector stated that they have experienced bullying behaviors in Australia. The highest share of LGBTQ+ respondents reporting bullying within their employment sector came from the Not-For-Profit/Charity/Non-Government-Organization sector.
In 2022, around 59 percent of young people in Germany had experiences with cyberbullying. 16 percent said that they had been personally affected by cyberbullying.
In the third quarter of 2024, Facebook took action on 7.6 million pieces of bullying and harassment related content, down from 7.8 million in the previous quarter. Overall, the first quarter of 2022 saw the highest ever number of bullying and harassment related pieces of content removed by the platform. Between the first quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021, the removal of bullying and harassment content increased significantly.