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Topic

Media & Information
Propaganda & verification
Transparency
Hate speech
Cyber
Personal data & privacy

Content Type

Case Studies
Exercises
Quizzes
Games

Cyber

The aim of the Cybersecurity guide is to give young adults knowledge about cyber threats, including challenges of cyberbullying and help them develop skills of defending against these threats. The guide has a separate chapter on trolls and bots and methods of their identification.

case studies


case study 1. killer game ‘blue whale’

russia is considered the homeland of ‘blue whale’. the game surfaced on the internet in 2013 and activated itself over the course of time. from november 2015 to april 2016 130 teenage suicides cases were recorded across russia.

case study 2. game ‘momo’

in august 2018 it was reported that a new game ‘momo’ surfaced on the internet. ‘momo’s avatar image depicts japanese artist keisuke aisawa’s work ‘mother-bird’.

case study 3. sexting, cyber-stalking, doxing

case study 4. cyberbullying of finnish journalist jessica aro

finnish investigative journalist jessica aro became the victim of a large-scale discreditation campaign conducted against her by pro-russian propagandists after she started to write articles about kremlin trolls in september 2014.
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