ISD's @ChloeColliver2 is featured in tonight's BBC Panorama documentary on the rise of online abuse against women. ISD has led research in this area for multiple years, looking especially at elections where female candidates receive disproportionate hate. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
ISD's research identified attacks against female politicians & journalists during the US Presidential election (bit.ly/3loxzKp), EU Elections (bit.ly/3fbfxse), and Swedish (bit.ly/3n2kj0p) and Bavarian (bit.ly/3piBkpJ) elections.
On Twitter, our research has shown that up to 38% of content mentioning female election candidates can be abusive. On Facebook, female politicians received on average 12% more abusive comments than their male counterparts. isdglobal.org/isd-publicatio…
Our recent work on the German Federal Election this September showed a disproportionate amount of hate and disinformation targeting the female frontrunner, Annalena Baerbock. isdglobal.org/isd-publicatio…
Platforms have failed to take the abuse, harassment and threats against women seriously because they have little incentive to do so. They profit from sensationalist content driving engagement. We need systemic regulation to make them put safety over profits.
ISD is calling for regulation to make platforms take abuse of women seriously. Our @ChloeColliver2 recently joined with other experts and victims to call for substantive action. cdn.sanity.io/files/k97a60yb…
@ChloeColliver2 ISD has joined with a number of global human rights organisations and Civil Society Organisations to call on European regulators to ensure that platforms are held accountable for the harms they enable against women. medium.com/@tacklinggbovi…
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