An appallingly high percent of women journalists are abused online - as the report below and my students' experiences attest to. All journalist schools and media companies should offer free training on how to deal with online harassment.
"A pioneering UNESCO discussion paper points to a sharp increase in online violence against women journalists and reveals how these attacks are now inextricably bound up with disinformation, intersectional discrimination, and populist politics." @UNESCO
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Reporter @trishdevlin received death threats on & offline w/ police warning her of credible danger in 2020. But the most traumatizing experience, she told us for our @UNESCO study, was when a man with neo-Nazi ties threatened to rape her newborn in 2019: https://t.co/CqRJvaRNBl
Racism makes #onlineviolence against women journalists worse. While 64% of all white women journos who took part in our survey said they had experienced online violence, the rates were higher for those identifying as Black, Indigenous & Jewish. More: https://t.co/UKdS6F3TiL