Nearly 40 percent of women have personally been targeted by online violence. A new tool from Google think tank Jigsaw helps high-risk internet users catalog and report harassment and abusive behavior online.
of women have personally been targeted by online violence. These numbers are even higher for women whose work is public-facing, like journalists or human rights defenders, and for minority groups.
Documenting these experiences can also reveal larger trends, such as the increasing harassment of groups or communities like journalists or minorities. Egyptian gay rights activist Omar Shariff, Jr., is one of the Middle East’s first openly gay celebrities.The Twitter version of this tool is just the first step. Now that the code for Harassment Manager is open sourced, our hope is that other ecosystem players can adopt it, adapt it, expand it.
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