(WASHINGTON TIMES) – A pair of wide-ranging social media studies released Wednesday finds cyberbullying complaints highest on Meta‘s Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram platforms as teens increasingly switch to TikTok.
In a global survey of 11,687 parents and their children in 10 countries, computer security company McAfee found Facebook leading all platforms for complaints, with 65% of Americans witnessing bullying – including racism and threats of physical harm – and 67% experiencing it.
The California-based firm said cyberbullying occurs more than twice as often on Facebook as on Twitter and four times more on WhatsApp, the most popular messaging app among children, than on rival Discord.
