United Nations: Digital Violence Against Women Is Real Violence

Indeed, digital tools are increasingly being used to abuse women and girls, including by way of image-based abuse/non-consensual sharing of intimate images (so-called revenge porn), cyberbullying, trolling, online threats, online harassment, AI-generated deepfakes such as sexually explicit images, deepfake pornography, and digitally manipulated images, videos or audio, doxxing (publishing private information), online stalking or surveillance, online grooming and sexual exploitation, and much more. These acts, while happening online, often lead to offline violence, including coercion, physical abuse, and even femicide. Digital violence targets women more than men, and especially those with public or online visibility – such as activists, journalists, women in politics, human rights defenders, and young women.

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