Harm Domains
The Digital Harms Tracker organizes documented incidents into eight harm domains — each with its own incident database, related legislation, and linked litigation.
Misinfo & Disinfo
Health misinformation, election disinformation, synthetic media, and algorithmic amplification of false content.
Child Safety
Sextortion, online grooming, CSAM, dangerous challenges, and COPPA violations on social media and AI platforms.
Self-Harm & Suicide
Platform-recommended self-harm content, AI chatbot harm, and suicide facilitation on social media.
Addiction & Mental Health
Compulsive design harms, teen mental health, eating disorder content, and sleep disruption from platform use.
Algorithmic Discrimination
AI bias in hiring, lending, healthcare, facial recognition misidentification, and content moderation.
Fraud & Financial
AI deepfake scams, voice cloning fraud, AI romance fraud, and algorithmic financial exploitation.
Privacy & Surveillance
Data harvesting, biometric misuse, location tracking, stalkerware, and unauthorized surveillance.
Autonomous Systems
Self-driving vehicle incidents, medical AI errors, autonomous drone harms, and AI decision failures.