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Tackling Online Abuse and Disinformation Targeting Women in Politics | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
by Lucina Di Meco & Saskia Brechenmacher
December 2, 2020
In 2017, soon after then Ukrainian member of parliament Svitlana Zalishchuk gave a speech to the United Nations on the…
Online Attacks on Women Journalists Leading to ‘Real World’ Violence, New Research Shows | International Center for Journalists
by Julie Posetti, Jackie Harrison and Silvio Waisbord
November 30, 2020
The insidious problem of online violence against women journalists is increasingly spilling offline, with potentially deadly consequences, a new global…
Engendering Hate: The contours of state-aligned gendered disinformation online | Demos
by Alex Krasodomski-Jones, Asli Atay, Ellen Judson, Josh Smith & Rose Lasko-Skinner
October 28, 2020
Our report, with U.S.-based National Democratic Institute (NDI), outlines a new framework for understanding how disinformation is being used online…
Technology Does Not Operate in a Vacuum: The Impact of Women’s Mobile Phone Ownership on Economic Well-being in Tanzania |PCMLP Global Media Policy Seminar Series
October 26, 2020
In many emerging economies, a significant mobile gender gap persists—in which women not only have less access to mobile internet…
Info-Deficiency in an Infodemic: The Gender Digital Gap, Arab Women and the COVID-19 Pandemic | Arab Media & Society
by Sahar Khamis & Eliza Campbell
September 28, 2020
This commentary tackles the complex struggles faced by Arab women, including multiple layers of invisibility, marginalization and inequality,[1] all of…
OHCHR raises concerns over the disturbing trend of digital attacks on women journalists in Pakistan | Digital Rights Monitor
by Hija Kamran
September 10, 2020
The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR), expressed concerns over the prevailing situation of violence against…
Deborah Jordan Brooks
September 1, 2020
Racism, sexism congregate on Trump’s Twitch channels during RNC | POLITICO
by Tina Nguyen
August 28, 2020
It’s a forum full of conspiracy theories, vulgar coronavirus debates and racist, sexist, anti-Semitic memes. And it’s in the comments…
What women in Congress want from Facebook | Vox
by Rebecca Heilweil
August 13, 2020
About 100 female lawmakers from across the world have sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl…