More than 42% of Internet Users in EU Encounter Hostile Online Messages in 2025: Eurostat

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In 2025, 42.3% of Internet users in the EU met online messages that they considered hostile and degrading to certain groups of people or individuals, on Friday, Eurostat.

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The most common targets of hostile messages were people due to their political and social views, racial and ethnic origin, sexual orientation, and religion.

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Eurostat reveals that 50.5% of netizens in Portugal found hostile messages addressed to groups or individuals

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In the EU as a whole, in 2025, 42.3% of users of the internet in the Community found ‘online' messages which they considered hostile and degrading directed at specific groups of people or individuals.