[Wamvan] Fwd: Harassment of women on Twitter? We're ON IT.

[Natalie Hill]

For those not subscribed to the WAM! central emails - WAM! has partnered
with twitter to better document and respond to harassment.

see below.

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Date: Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 7:37 AM
Subject: Harassment of women on Twitter? We're ON IT.
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We are so excited to announce our latest project: *an unprecedented
collaboration with Twitter to address the online harassment of women.*

The vicious targeting of women who speak up online has reached crisis
levels.  Examples
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attacks are having on women's lives are everywhere
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A recent Pew research study found that fully 25 percent of young women
online have been sexually harassed online and 26 percent have experienced
stalking. What’s more, Pew found that women overall are disproportionately
targeted by the most severe forms of online abuse.

That's why, starting today, *WAM! is running a pilot project to support all
Twitter users experiencing gendered harassment and abuse on the
platform. **Just
use this simple form to report it to WAM!
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WAM! will escalate validated reports to Twitter and track Twitter’s
responses to different kinds of gendered harassment.  At the end of the
pilot test period, WAM! will analyze the data collected and use it to work
with Twitter to better understand how gendered harassment functions on
their platform, and to improve Twitter's responses to it.

We’re thrilled to be working with Twitter to make their platform safer for
women. The disproportionate targeting of women online results in them
removing their voices from the public conversation. We’re so glad that
Twitter recognizes that the best way to ensure equally free speech for all
users on their platform is to ensure that all users are equally free to
speak without being targeted by harassment, abuse and threats.

Read our full press release here
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*Let's make Twitter a better place for women.*

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