How can newsrooms protect their journalists from online abuse? 🤬 This is the question at the heart of this new paper by our Journalist Fellow Gideon Sarpong. It includes a 5-point plan to deal with this threat facing journalism in Africa and beyond reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/protecting-jou…

Follow the upcoming sessions of the International Journalism Festival #IJF22 on online harassment and mental health in this list provided by Liz Lee of OnlineSOS, a Coalition Against Online Violence member! ➡️➡️bit.ly/IJF22selectses…

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure: some notes from Tall Poppy's Victoria Lam on digital safety for healthcare workers: tallpoppy.com/blog/digital-s…

When your notifications are filled with hate speech, how do you protect your mental health? Join Alice Taylor-Braçe, Amber Rahim Shamsi ,Nida Khan Tareen, @natashafatah, @YumnaFawaz Zoya Anwer as they discuss "Mental Health in the age of trolling." Set a reminder: x.com/i/spaces/1jMKg…

I wasn't going to talk about this publicly, but I've decided silence doesn't benefit me here anymore. A thing I don't see talked about on here is, frankly, how dangerous being an author/any kind of entertainer can be. 1/ 🧵

We know Sonia’s story is going to kick us in the feels 👊 She has led the nation in reporting on caste-based discrimination in tech. Don’t miss your chance to hear her live on stage! 🤩

UPDATE: AAJA San Francisco Bay Area Hella Asian is SOLD OUT!!! How is that for a comeback?!? So proud of my fellow board members @khwangreports Mariecar Mendoza Sonia Paul Harry Mok Janelle Bitker and our fearless president Cecilia Lei 🙌

⭕️ Toxic trolls 🤳 Shocking smear campaigns 💻 Dangerous 'doxxing' 🚨 Cases of online abuse against journalists are soaring – harming their mental health and forcing some to leave their jobs. Could this new AI-powered tool help reporters? Here's how TRFilter works. 🧵

Today Thomson Reuters Foundation is launching TRFilter, an online harassment manager for journalists developed with Jigsaw. TRFilter is a free web app that syncs with the user’s @Twitter account, flagging harmful comments 👉Sign up here trfilter.org 🧵Here's a thread on what it does

It is alarming how #WomenInTech and #WomenofColor are subject of harassment due to caste. We stand with Equality Labs' Thenmozhi Soundararajan and Tanuja Gupta and demand accountability from #Google to address Caste Discrimination. Our full statement⬇️ onlineviolenceresponsehub.org/news/the-caov-…

This detailed NYT story by Kellen Browning and Kashmir Hill lays out the ways online harassment directed at streamers and content creators can escalate to stalking and violent threats. Some thoughts, from our years of working with creative folks facing severe online threats 🧵

We made the ultimate hate raid mitigation guide! Please share! ✅How to prepare for a Hate Raid ✅How to Stop a Hate Raid ✅What to do After ✅Mental Health Support & Community Tools ➡️Check out the comprehensive guide here: gameshotline.org/hateraids

ICYMI: New venture fund investing in startups tackling harm reduction in tech, incl. online harassment! 👇🏼👇🏼

We are proud to share that Liz Lee (Liz Lee) has joined the #BeKindTechFund as an advisor! 🌟 Liz is a tech investor, social entrepreneur and digital safety advocate. We are excited to join forces to tackle online harassment & abuse! More here: bit.ly/3BhPxsL

Who had the end of Twitter on their 2022 bingo card? We sure didn't, but here are our thoughts on how to stay safer on Twitter whether or not the site sticks around. tallpoppy.com/blog/much-ado-…

📢 Mark your calendars for June 8! Join us in our powerful RightsCon online session "Take a deep breath: strategies to support the mental health of journalists under online" in partnership with OnlineSOS, Ana Zellhuber, and VitaActiva ⏰12:45PM CST | 2:45PM ET

🧵PEN America is excited to announce the acquisition of OnlineSOS's name, website, and digital safety tools, an important advancement in our ongoing work to protect the free expression of writers, journalists, scholars, and librarians harassed online.

(2/3) OnlineSOS has been a pioneering force in digital safety, providing trauma-informed guidance and support for those facing online harassment since 2016.

Couldn't be prouder, more honored, or delighted that our trailblazing partner, Liz Lee, has entrusted us PEN America with the future of OnlineSOS, the nonprofit she built to help people harassed online at a time when few others were taking the issue seriously. Thank you, Liz!

Great to share that two nonprofits I’ve supported are joining forces: @PENAmerica will integrate OnlineSOS’s name, website, and digital safety tools into its online abuse defense programming—expanding access to critical resources. Read more: pen.org/press-release/…