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Online violence against women in politics.

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Gender-based Violence

Women in politics around the world are frequent targets of abuse and threats online, but social media companies and governments are not doing nearly enough to combat it. Lucina Di Meco and Saskia Brechenmacher break down the issue and what can be done to tackle it. Some amount of this harassment is computationally generated with AI bots and tools, and this issue has significant overlap with content moderation dialogues.

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