Toward a Cyberbullying Safety Tool

Kids need tools to detect and document cyber bullying within and across social media platforms. How else will parents defend their kids if they don’t know they’re being targeted and if they don’t have court-admissible evidence? Given the complexity and subtleties of QAnon logic, conspiracy theories, and other cyber bullying techniques, documentation must account for the signifiers, signifieds, and context within which they gain their meaning. These ever-evolving semiotic gestalts must be distinguishable from “normal” posts, and ideally decipherable. This is how parents and authorities would be able to figure out how the kids were impacted. And hopefully it could help parents correct the wrong beliefs and self-esteem damage that was done to their children. Ideally such a tool would also determine the origin/attribution/author of the attacks, since even a single nefarious user can appear to create posts using different real and fake accounts.