Ahead of World Press Freedom Day earlier this month on 3 May, UN Women, The Nerve, and partners released a new report highlighting the growing and increasingly sophisticated forms of online violence faced by women in public life—particularly women journalists and media professionals. According to Tipping point: Online violence impacts, manifestations and redress in the AI age, 12 per cent of women human rights defenders, activists, journalists, media workers, and other public communicators report having experienced the non-consensual sharing of personal images, including intimate or sexual content. Six per cent…
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