Women Are Facing Growing Online Abuse
“Normalized abuse comes from the top down. No wonder women fear for their personal safety,” Villanueva said.
“Normalized abuse comes from the top down. No wonder women fear for their personal safety,” Villanueva said.
A comprehensive new study released today by the National Organization for Women (NOW), the nation’s leading membership-based advocacy group dedicated to defending women’s rights, advancing equality and combating injustice in all aspects of social, political and economic life, and Incogni, a data privacy company, reveals that one in four American women have experienced online harassment, with ethnic diverse backgrounds and younger generations facing disproportionately higher rates of abuse.
Women are the first to be exploited, attacked, and abused online in the most invasive ways possible–and with AI, the threat changes every day. That’s why it’s so vital that we push lawmakers both in Washington, D.C. and the states to protect women from the dark side of AI.