“I broke a story about another female journalist, Zeenat Shahzadi, who was allegedly abducted by security forces. She was 24. I could tell this could happen to me next,” Eitizaz says. “First, a storm of sexual harassment that lasted over a month. My social media...
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If you think your mentions are bad, imagine what @Jack sees when he checks Twitter. @Jack is of course Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter. And each day he is tagged in a deluge of tweets. His mentions must fly by so fast they look like...
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Twitter announced this afternoon it will begin booting accounts off its service from those who have tried to evade their account suspension. The company says that the accounts in question are users who have been previously suspended on Twitter for their abusive behavior, or...
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Read MoreAs part of Twitter’s attempted crackdown on abusive behavior across its network, the company announced on Friday afternoon a new policy facing those who repeatedly harass, threaten or otherwise make abusive comments during a Periscope broadcaster’s live stream. According to Twitter, the company will...
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For the nearly 20 percent of Americans who experience severe online harassment, there’s a new company launching in the latest batch of Y Combinator called Tall Poppy that’s giving them the tools to fight back. Co-founded by Leigh Honeywell and Logan Dean, Tall Poppy grew out...
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Read MoreImage: NurPhoto via Getty ImagesBy Martha Tesema2018-07-19 18:01:43 UTC Spotify's social features are what set the streaming giant apart from its competition, but now, those same features are the root of a very real problem: harassment. As reported by BuzzFeed this week, unlike other social media...
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Image: Richard Drew/AP/REX/ShutterstockBy Matt Binder2018-06-27 19:01:27 UTC In a new blog post on Tuesday, Twitter committed to continue dealing with problems that have long plagued the website: spam and harassment. Since the 2016 election, malicious bot and troll accounts have hounded users across Twitter with fake...
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[ad_1] Sadly, the reality of having any kind of online presence in this day and age seems to come hand in hand with receiving negative and abusive comments. It's unpleasant, upsetting, and sometimes, deeply personal. A popular British fitness blogger did something rather unusual with the...
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[ad_1] Harassment is clearly an issue everywhere. Hootsworth, founded by harassment legal expert Janine Yancey, is launching today to provide a resource and tool for employees and employers to address harassment and other workplace issues. “For a long time now I’ve seen that the current structure...
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[ad_1] Time's Up. These two words have reverberated across the globe since over 300 women in Hollywood joined forces to form a movement to combat systemic sexual harassment across all workplaces. The initiative— launched by the biggest names in the U.S. entertainment industry—has raised $21 million...
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