Far from empowering young women, the internet silences their voices | Jane Dudman

Vicious abuse, hate speech and sexual harassment deter younger women from public debate, finds EU research

If you walked past a craft beer store regularly, and subsequently received obscene messages on Facebook from the store account, what would you do?

Former Austrian Green party MP Sigrid Maurer wanted to sue a beer shop owner in Vienna after receiving a series of abusive online messages.

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