🤳 Smear campaigns
💻 'Doxxing'
⭕️ Threats
Women reporters are facing an onslaught of abuse online.
Here's how it's impacting their work – and what we can do to help stop it. 🧵
📲 Online harm aims to silence and stigmatise women journalists.
✒️ Mounting abuse can force some to leave the field altogether.
🤳 That's why we're launching TRFilter with @Jigsaw, a new tool for reporters to manage and block harassment as it happens. trfilter.org
⭕️ How does TRFilter work?
▶️ It recognises and flags harmful Twitter posts
▶️ Choose to hide, mute or save comments
▶️ Block abusive users
▶️ Create reports to share with others
trfilter.org
✊ TRFilter empowers reporters to do their work – without suffering disruption and psychological harm.
Register your interest in the platform here. ➡️ trfilter.org
🚺 How else can we limit harassment of women journalists?
Don’t miss our panel at @UNESCO's #WorldPressFreedomDay Conference today at 4pm BST to showcase TRFilter and explore effective ways to protect reporters against harm.
Register now. ➡️ bit.ly/3rRsFLD
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