{"id":50075,"date":"2025-12-09T14:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/in-this-age-of-authoritarians-online-abuse-of-women-is-soaring-and-its-leading-to-real-world-violence-julie-posetti\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:04:43","slug":"in-this-age-of-authoritarians-online-abuse-of-women-is-soaring-and-its-leading-to-real-world-violence-julie-posetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/in-this-age-of-authoritarians-online-abuse-of-women-is-soaring-and-its-leading-to-real-world-violence-julie-posetti\/","title":{"rendered":"In this age of authoritarians, online abuse of women is soaring \u2013 and it\u2019s leading to \u2018real-world\u2019 violence  | Julie Posetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our UN report reveals the link between the online misogyny and offline crimes that are hounding women out of public life<\/p>\n<p>Networked misogyny is now firmly established as a key tactic in the 21st-century authoritarian\u2019s playbook. This is not a new trend \u2013 but it is now being supercharged by generative AI tools that make it easier, quicker and cheaper than ever to perpetrate online violence against women in public life \u2013 from journalists to human rights defenders, politicians and activists.<\/p>\n<p>The objectives are clear: to help justify the rollback of gender equality and women\u2019s reproductive rights; to chill women\u2019s freedom of expression and their participation in democratic deliberation; to discredit truth-tellers; and to pave the way for the consolidation of authoritarian power.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Julie Posetti is the director of the Information Integrity Initiative at TheNerve, a digital forensics lab founded by Nobel laureate Maria Ressa. She is also a professor of journalism and chair of the Centre for Journalism and Democracy at City St George\u2019s, University of London.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/dec\/09\/online-abuse-women-violence-un-report-public-life\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our UN report reveals the link between the online misogyny and offline crimes that are hounding women out of public life Networked misogyny is now firmly established as a key tactic in the 21st-century authoritarian\u2019s playbook. This is not a new trend \u2013 but it is now being supercharged by generative AI tools that make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}