Twitter Partners With Women's Group to Fight Online Harassment

Twitter has teamed up with a leading women’s advocacy group to battle sexual harassment on the social network.

Women, Action, and the Media (WAM!), a “people-powered independent nonprofit dedicated to building a robust, effective, inclusive movement for gender justice in media”, says that online harassment of women is now occurring on an “unprecedented” scale. Indeed, a recent Pew Research study found that a quarter of young women online have been sexually harassed online and 26 percent have experienced stalking.

“The vicious targeting of women who speak up online has reached crisis levels,” said WAM! “Examples of the impact these attacks are having on women’s lives are everywhere.