Cyber Security Specialist Gökhan Say, Information and Communication Technologies and Communication Institution (BTK) in a study, social media and digital platforms of children were mostly exposed to cyber bullying transferred, children reached 52.2 percent, he added.
In the world, this ratio is 65 percent of the pointed out that Say, especially 8-14-year-old children, social media and digital platforms of any of the exposure of cyber bullying, anonymous or fake accounts of a person’s lynching is one of the important problems today.
Stressing that the combination of Data and artificial intelligence has become as dangerous as nuclear weapons, Say said that fake content can be created with “Artificial Intelligence” and “Deepfake” that turned into a nuclear weapon.
Say, expressing that they are in the age of manipulation, “World Economic Forum has a global risk report in 2024. Disinformation, especially the artificial intelligence -based disinformation has put the first place. The age of privacy is died. Our private information is on the street. It is a terrible issue that we live. ” he said.
Stating that the education system should adapt to the new world, Say said that it was exposed to cyber bullying because it is not known enough for children doing on the Internet.
Say said that parents should act more consciously about technological measures, and that malicious users use Chatgpt more than they use themselves to protect themselves.
Noting that artificial intelligence is both the biggest risk and the biggest opportunity, Say said, “We don’t have the possibility of getting back in this race. The only thing that is more risky than to use artificial intelligence is not to have AI, I can say not to use it.” He said.
Say, the necessary legal arrangements to manage artificial intelligence should be made, otherwise this will pose a huge threat, explaining that the laws of artificial intelligence in the European Union (EU) can only be prepared in 3 years, he said.
Stressing that individuals should act with the awareness of responsibility while sharing on social media, Say, “To darken a person’s life, you are pressing a key that may be as dangerous as a person’s death. Please be careful.” He made his warning.
– Writing sarcastic expressions under the photo is the simplest example of cyber bullying
Lawyer Gülşah Bilç Akdoğan said that the widespread social media carries the freedom of expression of individuals and the risk of harming the rights of others at the same time.
Akdoğan also evaluated the lynch campaign carried out after the publication of the fight in Marmaray on social media, and that the existing arrangements can be activated after the events took place mostly.
Akdogan, because of the unfounded news of people from social media threats and insult messages of exposure to messages, a person’s photo under the simplest examples of cyber bullying is one of the simplest examples of writing, these behaviors in the Turkish Penal Code, the privacy of private life, personal data, such as sharing of crimes such as sharing unlawful crimes.
Clinical Psychologist Aybige Üstüner said that the incident in Marmaray suddenly attracted the reaction of the masses on social media and thus turned into lynching culture.
Underlining that anonymity, the disintegration of responsibility and the group dynamics that the group dynamics do not pass through the ethical filter of the individual, Üstüner said that the social media environment can quickly draw individuals into mass psychology and weaken their critical thinking skills.
In an incident, he said that he could quickly judge by taking refuge in bilateral thought patterns such as “justified-right”, “victim-zali”.
Although Üstüner creates a feeling of moral superiority in the short term, the situation is much more destructive for the people who are in the target of reactions, “a state of intense anxiety, worthlessness, loneliness, depression, post -trauma stress symptoms, even social phobia can be observed.” he said.
Social media of the events often detached from the context of the distorted or missing in the voicing that the Üstüner, this causes people’s reactions to shape according to the narrative, he added.
