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Big Tech Pledges To Do Better Battling Internet Violence Against Women. History Suggests Theyâll Come Up Short.
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Seven years after GamerGate, Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok have collectively pledged to put an end to what an open letter called a âpandemic of online abuse against women and girls.â The pledge followed the World Wide Web Foundationâs publication of the letter, which was signed by over 200 influential women including politicians and celebrities, and came during the UN Womenâs Generation Equality Forum in Paris.
LONDON - JULY 10: In this photo illustration a girl browses the social networking site Facebook on July 10, 2007 in London, England. (Photo Illustration by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
Tucker Carlson's belittling of a reporter for The New York Times for publicly discussing how she had been harassed reveals both a toxic online culture and bad blood between the newspaper and Fox News Channel host.
The targeting of reporter Taylor Lorenz started a day after the International Women’s Media Foundation announced that it was starting a new resource center for journalists subject to online abuse.
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