Indian cyberspace is known to be toxic for women & unlike men, abuse tends to be directed more towards women body. The abuse extends from trolling to sexual innuendo, to direct threat of rape. We analysed 236 prominent handles.
Here is what we found:(1/7)
thedisinfolab.org
Here is what we found:(1/7)
thedisinfolab.org
Unsurprisingly @KanganaTeam and @ReallySwara were the most abused women on our Abuse-o-Meter, so much so that they were being abused in every 10 minutes which increases to an abuse per minute after anything they post.
@RubikaLiyaquat @priyankagandhi @RanaAyyub @DeepikaSRajawat
@RubikaLiyaquat @priyankagandhi @RanaAyyub @DeepikaSRajawat
The political environment in India seems to be enabling this behaviour, where prominent political parties/ leaders were found to be supporting such hecklers, including BJP and Congress. @rohini_sgh
Minority community women, whose views tend to be pro-government seems to be getting more abused, surprisingly from their own community.
@Shehla_Rashid @RubikaLiyaquat @SwetaSinghAT @chitraaum @romanaisarkhan
@Shehla_Rashid @RubikaLiyaquat @SwetaSinghAT @chitraaum @romanaisarkhan
The abusing handles are created for the purpose - about 44.6% of the violators have 0-10 followers. Likewise, most of these abusers have only done abusing posts ever.
Internet anonymity tends to encourage unsocial behaviour, and our report substantiates that - about 12% of the profiles do not have any personal details nor a display picture.
The corrective measures are wanting – both on part of Social Media platforms and general users. Around 35% handles from our data set were found to be active on Twitter for more than a year, devoted into dedicated abusing. (7/7)
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