En todo el mundo, las mujeres líderes enfrentan niveles terribles de desinformación de género y abuso en línea, con consecuencias dramáticas para su libertad de expresión, así como para los derechos de las mujeres y la democracia en general. Sin embargo, sus perspectivas a menudo faltan en las conversaciones clave sobre democracia y tecnología.
Con una combinación de más de veinte años de experiencia en democracia y derechos de las mujeres, Lucina y Kristina crearon #ShePersisted para aprovechar las voces de las mujeres líderes a nivel mundial y asegurarse de que sean parte de conversaciones cruciales sobre la reforma de la plataforma digital.
Un nuevo informe (inglés) de #ShePersisted analiza cómo los movimientos políticos y los gobiernos utilizan la desinformación para socavar la participación política de las mujeres, atacar los derechos humanos y debilitar las instituciones democráticas. Incluye un examen de las acciones que los gobiernos y las plataformas digitales han "tomado, o con mayor frecuencia, no han tomado, para abordar este problema".
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Our research has been featured by some of the world’s leading media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, and presented at webinars and roundtables with influential stakeholders and institutions like the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OCSE), the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), UN Women, and many more. Recordings of these events can be found here, and previous events we’ve taken part in here.
Below are some of our articles highlighting the intersections of gendered disinformation and the featured themes.
Thought Leadership
This categorization touches on the larger themes of the highlighted resources. However, it should be noted there is a crossover of these topics in every area due to the interdisciplinary nature of this work.
Big Tech Accountability:
- Holding big tech accountable for online violence against women and gendered disinformation – Ms. Magazine
- Politics and social media: Misogyny and online violence against women in politics – Emerge
Democracy:
- Why disinformation targeting women undermines democratic institutions – Power 3.0
- Gendered disinformation, democracy, and the need for a new digital social contract – Council on Foreign Relations
- Online threats to women’s political participation and the need for a multi-stakeholder, cohesive approach to address them – UN CSW
- How digital media is threatening women’s rights and democracy – Ms. Magazine
Political Campaigns:
- Campaigning while female: How online hate holds women back – Politico
- The gendered disinformation playbook in germany is a warning for Europe – Brookings
Norms and Stereotypes:
Security:
Threat Analysis:
- Tackling online abuse and disinformation targeting women in politics – Carnegie
- Gendered disinformation, fake news, and women in politics – Council on Foreign Relations
- Security, misogyny, and disinformation undermining women’s leadership – Routledge
Future Research:
Supporting Women Leaders
#ShePersisted designs and implements comprehensive communications strategies for women in politics, including tailored training on how to respond to gendered disinformation and online abuse. We are building on the work of the Women’s Disinformation Defense Project, a unique effort established with several influential women’s political organizations in the U.S. Our advice is based on the latest research and tools available – such as UltraViolet’s innovative Fairness Media Guide for reporting on sexist and racist disinformation without replicating it.
In June 2022, we released our Digital Resilience Toolkit, which brings together existing resources for digital security and tactics for preventing and handling the online harms most commonly experienced by women leaders online. It includes resources and guidance on responding to doxxing, trolling, online smear campaigns, and coordinated abuse, and outlines certain steps that can help women in the public eye who have found themselves the target of online abuse. The toolkit can be downloaded here.
We support the work of women political leaders at the forefront of the struggle for democracy and human rights by enabling them to build alliances across borders, strengthening our collective efforts to improve the performance and vigilance of the dominant social platforms. We have collaborated with organizations such as Vital Voices, the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development, the Women Legislators’ Lobby, International IDEA, the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, and many others to increase the digital resilience of high-level women politicians and electoral bodies and provide advice on how to respond to gendered disinformation.
If you want to know more about our work to support women leaders, get in touch here.