'Gendered online harassment has a clear goal: to induce fear, belittle, humiliate, and shame the targets... This treatment silences women journalists at a time when we need their perspectives and grit the most.' (via WMC's the_fbomb)
Online trolling, harassment, and hate campaigns targeting female journalists persist all over the world, according to aissued by the International Center for Journalists . While all journalists are at risk of online abuse, female journalists uniquely face “gender trolling,” or online violence and sexual harassment that may include death threats, rape threats, and credible, detailed descriptions of violence.
According to the ICFJ research, 73% of female journalists surveyed experienced online violence, with 25% of the messages they received threatening physical violence and 18% threatening sexual violence. What’s more, 20% of victims were physically attacked or abused in the offline world in connection with online violence they had experienced.
“Networked misogyny and gaslighting intersect with racism, religious bigotry, homophobia and other forms of discrimination to threaten women journalists — severely and disproportionately,” according to the report. “Threats of sexual violence and murder are frequent and sometimes extended to their families.
Investigative journalist Brandy Zadrozny, who covers disinformation for NBC News and MSNBC and has reported on far-right networks, the QAnon conspiracy, and the anti-vaccine movement, told the authors of the report, “I’m not in a war zone, I’m behind a computer. But the effect of online harassment and bad faith journalism from disinformation agents... is meant to silence us, meant to stop our reporting, meant to scare us. I think it does all of those things… And that takes a real toll on you.
Of course, evidence of gendered harassment of reporters has been covered beyond the confines of this report. Pakistani journalist Gharidah Farooqi has endured nine years of online abuse for reporting on Pakistani politicians and national news, and recently told thethat she’s been harassed, stalked, and threatened with rape and murder.
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