Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies are Weaponized Against Women Online

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Nina Jankowicz, Jillian Hunchak, and Alexandra Pavliuc discuss their report. Gendered and sexualized abuse and disinformation online is sprawling, and even assessing it in the broadest terms presents obstacles in detection and analysis. As this report indicates, abusers’ malign creativity means addressing this problem will not be easy. Dedicated, collective efforts by platforms, policymakers, and employers can elevate this from its misidentification as a special interest issue to a question of the right to equal participation in democracy and public life without fear of abuse and harassment.