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These resources cover online harassment, doxxing, false criminal accusations, and the broader digital safety and mental health crises that often happen at the same time. [1, 2]

This is a remind we are NOT lawyers, a law firm, or therapist. If you or someone you know is in immediate physical danger, please contact 911 or your local emergency services. 

Here are some resources to help you:

1. Digital Safety, Doxxing & Tech Crisis Lines
These organizations provide immediate, specialized support for individuals actively dealing with doxxing, hacking, and online abuse.
  • Digital First Aid Kit: Offers a self-assessment tool and immediate troubleshooting steps for people facing digital emergencies, device hijacking, or online attacks through the Digital First Aid Kit Portal.
  • Access Now Digital Security Helpline: Provides 24/7 free real-time technical support, incident response, and digital safety mitigation for activists, journalists, and vulnerable individuals worldwide via the Access Now Helpline. 
  • Crash Override Network: A dedicated crisis hotline and support network specifically built for victims of online mobbing, doxxing, and systemic cyber-bullying through the Crash Override Resource Center. 
  • Games Hotline: A free, text-based, confidential hotline offering emotional support and referrals for anyone in or around the digital space facing severe online harassment and doxxing via the Games Hotline Network. 
2. Legal Defense, Free Speech & False Accusations
When online harassment crosses into legal threats, civil rights violations, or false criminal claims, these groups defend the victim's rights.
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy and free speech, offering legal guides on dealing with online surveillance, doxxing, and digital threats at the EFF Legal Resources Page. 
  • Civil Rights & Defamation Attorneys: For victims seeking to sue for doxxing or defamation, the National Crime Victim Bar Association connects individuals with local civil attorneys who specialize in tech abuse cases.
  • Innocence Network: Provides global legal defense resources, investigative aid, and exoneration support for individuals whose lives have been derailed by false accusations and wrongful legal targeting via the Innocence Network Directory.
3. Stalking, Domestic Abuse & Swarm Attacks
Online abuse is frequently an extension of offline stalking or domestic violence. These resources provide immediate safety planning.
  • National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC): Operates the VictimConnect Resource Center, offering confidential referrals for stalking and cyberstalking victims at the NCVC Help Portal. 
  • National Domestic Violence Hotline: Offers specialized safety planning for digital abuse, tracker removal, and intimate partner harassment by calling 1-800-799-SAFE or visiting The Hotline Online Abuse Guide. 
  • Right To Be: Combats coordinated online swarm attacks and harassment campaigns by training individuals in digital resilience and safety intervention techniques at the Right To Be Safety Guides.
4. Mental Health, Trauma & Crisis Intervention
The psychological toll of internet mobs, doxxing, and public smear campaigns requires immediate, compassionate mental health intervention.
  • 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Provides free, confidential, 24/7 emotional support for anyone experiencing an overwhelming crisis or severe distress by calling or texting 988, or via the 988 Lifeline Web Chat.
  • Crisis Text Line: Offers free, 24/7 crisis support via text message for individuals experiencing extreme anxiety, panic, or isolation from online attacks—text HOME to 741741 or connect at the Crisis Text Line Portal.
  • Healing Justice Project: Specialized support groups, retreats, and peer counseling programs specifically designed for individuals and families traumatized by false public accusations and wrongful legal harm via the Healing Justice Project Network. 

Crisis Support

  • 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline — Call or text 988 (24/7
  • The Trevor Project — Call 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678678
  • Trans Lifeline — Call 877-565-8860
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