> Platforms must mitigate against risks such as disinformation or election manipulation, cyber violence against women, or harms to minors online" That one stat

> Platforms must mitigate against risks such as disinformation or election manipulation, cyber violence against women, or harms to minors online" That one statement especially got my attention. The main issue with disinformation, to my mind, is who have means and interests to use them. > cyber violence against women The only occurrence of "women" in the actual legal text is there[1]: In view of possible cross-cutting elements that may be of relevance for other regulatory frameworks at Union level, the Board should be allowed to cooperate with other Union bodies, offices, agencies and advisory groups with responsibilities in fields such as equality, including equality between *women* and men, and non-discrimination, data protection, electronic communications, audiovisual services, detection and investigation of frauds against the EU budget as regards custom duties, or consumer protection, as necessary for the performance of its tasks. So the press release goes too far in simplification, at least in my taste. If women are more likely to suffer cyber violence, it should just states it explicitly, but not tacitly exclude adults males. It seams that researchers even coined the term "fear of crime gender paradox" as often males are more likely to be victim of violent crime.[2] No I don’t say men and women are on pare regarding being bullied online, I have no idea. The few research I made on the fly give mixed results, [3] is focus on females right from the start which doesn’t help, while [4] says that their data are too weak to be conclusive on that point. [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52020PC0825&from=EN https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_men [3] https://eige.europa.eu/news/cyber-violence-growing-threat-especially-women-and-girls https://eige.europa.eu/news/cyber-violence-growing-threat-es... [4] https://cyberbullying.org/cyberbullying-statistics-age-gender-sexual-orientation-race https://cyberbullying.org/cyberbullying-statistics-age-gende...