targeted harassment
Focused malicious attention
Targeted harassment is a sustained campaign of hostile behavior directed at a specific person, often involving multiple incidents or perpetrators.
Unlike a single rude comment, targeted harassment implies repeated, coordinated, or escalating attacks—threats, doxxing, mass pile-ons, or stalking behavior: The journalist faced targeted harassment after her article went viral.
The term appears frequently in discussions of online abuse and platform policies.
- bullyingAggressive repeated intimidation
- cyberstalkingElectronic pursuit and intimidation
- doxxingPublishing personal information maliciously
- death threatsStatements promising lethal harm
- trollingProvoking reactions online
abuse · victim · hate campaign · online · online mob · threats · intimidation · mob · pile-on · brigading · hateful · relentless · systematic · coordinated · malicious · bad faith · reply guys · anonymous
- cyberbullyingcyberbullying, doxxing, threats, trolling, insults
- hate crimeshate crime, racial attack, antisemitic attack, hate groups, racial violence
- online mobsdogpile, dogpiling, pile-on, mob attack, online mob
- online vigilantismdoxxing, mob justice, public shaming, cancel culture, online mobs
- online manipulationastroturfing, bots, bot farms, disinformation, fake news
targeted harassmentleaving alone
Ceasing to disturb
benign neglect · mutual respect · healthy boundaries · peaceful coexistence · non-interference
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