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• Meta’s oversight board has suggested Facebook and Instagram to make strict doxxing rules.
• It urged Meta to consider doxxing as an offence which should prompt temporary account suspension.

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• Doxxing is publishing and analysing others' personal information on the internet with a malicious intent that can reveal the person's real identity making them victims of harassments and cyber-attacks.
• Doxxing is used to shame or punish people who would rather stay anonymous, because of their controversial beliefs or other types of non-mainstream activity.

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