How Online Attacks Target Women Leaders @cfr
How Online Attacks Target Women Leaders  @cfr
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“Women are disproportionately affected by these online attacks, the gendered, attacks. And this is what—it’s not about policy debates, it’s really graphic, sexualized, violent material, including death threats,” says Linda Robinson, CFR expert and author of “Women in Power: Fighting for Democracy in an Age of Authoritarianism,” on how women leaders are disproportionately targeted online.

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