Latest news and stories about cyberbullying in Portugal for expats and residents.
The deregulation and inability to control content on technological platforms allow peers to share intimate content of other students without consent. Editorial by Pedro Candeias.
In a group with dozens of seventh-grade students from the Quinta do Marquês Secondary School, violent conversations and photographs of teachers taken from Teams were shared. The school states that it informed the guardians and “partner entities,” but does not clarify whether it reported the matter to the authorities. Two sources contacted by CNN Portugal guarantee that it did not.
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More than one fifth of respondents, aged 10 to 21, say they have been victims of derogatory or offensive comments on social media, and 12% were harassed.
Young people with greater exposure to harmful online content and cyberbullying tend to have poorer mental health, reporting more suicidal thoughts, heightened shame and lower overall life satisfaction.
The PSP (Public Security Police) also identified 130 incidents of bullying and 21 of cyberbullying.
