Traditionally, the idea of being a victim is associated with a crime, accident, trickery or being duped. With the advent of globalisation and rapid growth in the information technology sector, the world has opened itself to numerous vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities range from individual-centric privacy issues to collective interests in the form of a nation’s political and economic interests. While we have victims who can identify themselves as victims, there are also victims who can barely identify themselves as victims, and there are those who do not realise that they have become victims. Misinformation, disinformation, fake news and other methods of spreading questionable content can be regarded as a new and increasingly widespread type of collective victimisation. This paper, drawing on recent examples from India, examines and analyses the rationale and modus operandi—both methods and types—that lead us to regard questionable content as a new form of collective victimisation.

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我们都是受害者：数字时代的可疑内容和集体受害

传统上，成为受害者的想法与犯罪、事故、诡计或被欺骗有关。随着全球化的到来和信息技术部门的快速增长，世界已经向无数脆弱性敞开了大门。这些漏洞的范围从以个人为中心的隐私问题到国家政治和经济利益形式的集体利益。虽然我们有受害者可以将自己认定为受害者，但也有一些受害者几乎无法认定自己是受害者，还有一些人没有意识到自己已经成为受害者。错误信息、虚假信息、假新闻和其他传播可疑内容的方法可以被视为一种新的且日益普遍的集体受害类型。本文借鉴了印度最近的例子，