New Tool on Twitter to Report sexual harassment of women
Twitter has launched a tool that allows women to reporttheir abuse on Twitter and will be able to solve their problems within 24
hours. Reporting from NDTV tool and developed with the help of a non-profit
organization known as Women, Action and Media (WAM). That will help Twitter to
improve its policy on harassment and crime through online media by monitoring
the incoming reports and carry data - data they collect to Twitter.
Twitter users can report their abuse in detail through a
form "WAM Twitter Harassment Reporting Tool". There is a choice of
categories of abuse to be reported by the users, including impersonation, harsh
threats, publication of false information, photography pornographic, racist
spiel sexual harassment by phone and other offline methods.
New Tool on Twitter to Report sexual harassment of women
WAM Executive Director, Jaclyn Friedman said the team was
delighted to work with Twitter in order to become a more secure platform for
women.
Based on a survey by the Pew Research Internet Project,
approximately 25 percent of women aged 18 to 24 years had experienced sexual abuse
online, and 26 percent had watched online,
Twitter, the largest micro-blogging site in the world, will
develop a tool that can be used against abuse of women and help women who are
abused online immediately and may help the authorities to prosecute the
perpetrators of abuse.
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