Cyberbullying

The repeated use of digital communication or social media by one person or group to harass, threaten, humiliate, or intimidate another, most commonly documented among children and adolescents in a school or peer setting, distinguished from cyberstalking by typically involving a peer relationship rather than a fixation on a specific victim over an extended period, though the two frequently overlap. Documented forms include spreading rumors or a humiliating image online, excluding a peer from an online group, and impersonating a victim to post embarrassing content in their name, and a number of countries and school systems have enacted specific cyberbullying statutes or policies following documented cases in which cyberbullying was linked to a victim's suicide, increasing attention to school liability and platform reporting obligations.