#MeToo. Those were the two words that started a revolution.
One year on from the outpouring of profoundly personal stories about sexual harassment and violence, research has found that the movement prompted a major shift in people’s attitude’s toward…
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Pew: A majority of U.S. teens are bullied online
A majority of U.S. teens have been subject to online abuse, according to a new study from Pew Research Center, out this morning. Specifically, that means they’ve experienced at least one of a half-dozen types of online cyberbullying, including name-calling, being subject to false rumors, receiving explicit images they didn’t ask for, having explicit images […]
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Editor’s Note: This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means to be a woman on the internet.
Women around the world are harnessing the power of the internet to build a new set of digital ethics based on consent.
They include Katelyn Bowden in the U.S., who found out a year ago that intimate photos of her were posted online by a man who had allegedly stolen her boyfriend’s phone. And Emma Holten in Europe, whose intimate photos were leaked online after her identity was hijacked seven years ago. There’s also Saba Eitizaz, who was doxxed, threatened, and eventually forced to flee her home country of Pakistan Read more…
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View More Women Warriors: A global movement against online misogynyThe 5 things people tweet @Jack about the most
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If you think your mentions are bad, imagine what @Jack sees when he checks Twitter.
@Jack is of course Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter. And each day he is tagged in a deluge of tweets. His mentions must fly by so fast they look like a slot machine.
We’re committing Twitter to help increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation, and to hold ourselves publicly accountable towards progress.
— jack (@jack) March 1, 2018
Of course, as a way of actually contacting him, it’s useless. But people still tweet at Dorsey hour after hour, day after day. And, after we perused all the various tweets that are flung at him, certain patterns were revealed. Read more…
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View More The 5 things people tweet @Jack about the mostTwitter is purging accounts that were trying to evade prior suspensions
Twitter announced this afternoon it will begin booting accounts off its service from those who have tried to evade their account suspension. The company says that the accounts in question are users who have been previously suspended on Twitter for their abusive behavior, or for trying to evade a prior suspension. These bad actors have […]
View More Twitter is purging accounts that were trying to evade prior suspensionsTwitter will suspend repeat offenders posting abusive comments on Periscope live streams
As part of Twitter’s attempted crackdown on abusive behavior across its network, the company announced on Friday afternoon a new policy facing those who repeatedly harass, threaten or otherwise make abusive comments during a Periscope broadcaster’s live stream. According to Twitter, the company will begin to more aggressively enforce its Periscope Community Guidelines by reviewing […]
View More Twitter will suspend repeat offenders posting abusive comments on Periscope live streamsTall Poppy aims to make online harassment protection an employee benefit
For the nearly 20% percent of Americans who experience severe online harassment, there’s a new company launching in the latest batch of Y Combinator called Tall Poppy that’s giving them the tools to fight back. Co-founded by Leigh Honeywell and Logan Dean, Tall Poppy grew out of the work that Honeywell, a security specialist, had […]
View More Tall Poppy aims to make online harassment protection an employee benefitYou still can’t block followers on Spotify, and users are not happy
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Spotify’s social features are what set the streaming giant apart from its competition, but now, those same features are the root of a very real problem: harassment.
As reported by BuzzFeed this week, unlike other social media platforms, Spotify does not allow its users to block followers from viewing account activity — which has created a new avenue for abuse and intimidation.
The piece shares a story from Meghan, a 26-year-old who has been excessively targeted by someone from a previous relationship.
Spotify did remove the messaging feature in 2017, but the activity feed that shows followers what music you’re listening to remains. Read more…
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View More You still can’t block followers on Spotify, and users are not happyTwitter commits to taking on the bots and the abusers (yet again)
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In a new blog post on Tuesday, Twitter committed to continue dealing with problems that have long plagued the website: spam and harassment.
We do not value fake engagement. Taking bigger steps to improvehttps://t.co/A4b8IREWTc
— jack (@jack) June 26, 2018
Since the 2016 election, malicious bot and troll accounts have hounded users across Twitter with fake news and abusive comments. In an effort to combat this issue, the company announced that new users will be required to confirm either an email address or phone number. The company added that there would be exceptions for legitimate users whose safety would be jeopardized without anonymity. Read more…
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View More Twitter commits to taking on the bots and the abusers (yet again)Yet another World Cup reporter had to deal with sexual harassment on live TV
Again and again, women in the media just keep getting harassed while they’re just trying to do their jobs.
Taking a stand against this was Julia Guimarães, a sports reporter for Brazil’s TV Globo and sportv, who ripped into a man who tried…
The most harassed women online share why they’re not logging off
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Editor’s Note: This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means to be a woman on the internet. The internet can be dark and full of terrors for women, but it also provides a platform to be heard and connect.
When the internet metamorphoses into a hate-filled wasteland where strangers hurl the most vicious comments imaginable, the words “hope” or “love” can feel entirely alien to the experience of women online
For many women, simply existing in an online space and voicing an opinion can render them a target for abuse. Those targets include: Women of colour, women in the LGBTQ community, liberal women, conservative women, women fighting for reproductive rights, women speaking up about sexual assault, women taking a stand against misogyny and sexism, women with opinions, women who are just doing their job. Women are not the only people subjected to online harassment and abuse — and whose experience of the internet is warped by efforts to silence and shout them down — but for women who speak up, the internet can exacerbate the sexism, both overt and subtle, that they face in real life. Read more…
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View More The most harassed women online share why they’re not logging offInstagram blogger Photoshops her body to look how trolls want it to look
Sadly, the reality of having any kind of online presence in this day and age seems to come hand in hand with receiving negative and abusive comments. It’s unpleasant, upsetting, and sometimes, deeply personal.
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