{"id":14339,"date":"2019-09-16T08:46:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T13:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/?p=14339"},"modified":"2019-09-16T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:22:54","slug":"twitter-made-it-easy-to-report-doxxing-why-wont-facebook-or-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-tech\/twitter-made-it-easy-to-report-doxxing-why-wont-facebook-or-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter made it easy to report doxxing – why won’t Facebook or Instagram?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doxxing<\/a> \u2014 the act of publishing someone\u2019s personal information online for malicious purposes\u2014is a constantly growing threat for anyone with an online presence. While platforms such as Twitter<\/a> have made it easy to report this specific form of harassment, other social media powerhouses like Facebook have yet to make the leap. It’s perplexing.<\/p>\n

Doxxing can take on many forms, from posting someone\u2019s online contact details all the way to placing their address and other highly sensitive information (e.g., a credit card number) in a public environment. The basic premise is usually the same: to cause the recipient of the doxxing stress, pressure them into moving or deleting their account, and\/or prevent them from continuing to use their platform in an organic manner. <\/p>\n

The consequences of doxxing can differ depending on how rabid the doxxer\u2019s following is, but it isn\u2019t unheard of for conflicts that result in doxxing to escalate into real-world harassment or violence. <\/p>\n

Doxxing may seem like a problem reserved for celebrities and other high-traffic accounts, but the truth is that it can happen to anyone with an online presence. In fact, doxxing has become so common that some sites or services include a specific doxxing option when reporting a post for harassment. <\/p>\n

Twitter, for example, allows you to report a tweet that \u201cincludes private information\u201d as harassment.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the inclusion of the option to report doxxing on some platforms creates a notable absence thereof on other comparable sites. <\/p>\n

Facebook and Instagram (owned by Facebook) \u2014 both of which are ground zeroes for some of the most egregious forms of harassment \u2014 do not allow users to report posts for doxxing; instead, users must mark a post as inappropriate or a generic form of harassment and hope that the Facebook Gods recognize it for what it is.<\/p>\n

As doxxing continues to impact both virtual and real lives of victims, Facebook and other companies which have yet to follow Twitter\u2019s example will need to pick up the slack if they want to remain relevant in the cybersecurity realm. And they must put effort into stopping doxxing, lest they be complicit in the nefarious acts. <\/p>\n

Doxxing may seem like it doesn\u2019t affect enough people to warrant a full feature, but people who encounter doxxing certainly deserve better than a catch-all \u201charassment\u201d option when reporting doxxing abuse online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(TECHNOLOGY) Doxxing is a problem that impacts every day citizens, not just celebrities, and some social media giants are complicit as they allow it to continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337375,"featured_media":13015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[625,1234],"class_list":["post-14339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-tech","tag-privacy","tag-real-estate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/facebook-app.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14343,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions\/14343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}