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Our response: Mark Zuckerberg asks governments to help control internet content
Posted on April 1, 2019 Leave a Comment
On Saturday 30th March, Facebook’s Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in an open letter that the company needs governments’ help to control content on their platform. This includes stronger regulation around harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. Glitch strongly believes these social media platforms cannot be used as a tool to spread […]
#FixTheGlitch TweetChat: How Can We End Online Gender-Based Violence?
Posted on March 19, 2019 Leave a Comment
On 13th February we launched the first edition of our Fix The Glitch Toolkit, a resource designed to support individuals who want to help end online abuse. In 2017 The Law Commission reported 28% of UK internet users were on the receiving end of trolling, harassment or cyberbullying and, unfortunately but unsurprisingly, online abuse disproportionately […]
Council of Europe Notes Online Abuse in it’s Gender Equality Strategy 2018-2023
Posted on March 15, 2018 Leave a Comment
We welcome Council of Europe’s points on online abuse and social media in it’s Gender Equality Strategy 2018-2023. “Media and social media play an important role in our lives, particularly when used to share information and expand awareness of a wide range of issues. However, evidence also shows that social media in particular are subject to […]
Misogynoir: How social media abuse exposes longstanding prejudices against black women- Newstatesman Article
Posted on December 13, 2017 Leave a Comment
Written by Journalist Maya Goodfellow in The Newstateman “Which STD will end your miserable life?” “This is why monkeys don’t belong here.” “I hope you get lynched”. These are just some of the many messages Seyi Akiwowo, a Labour councillor in Newham, told me she has been sent over the past three weeks. Akiwowo has […]
Human Rights Day: Freedom of Expression is not a pass to be an online troll
Posted on December 10, 2017 Leave a Comment
It is possible have a robust debate, and sometimes it is necessary to in order to get to the core of the main points, challenge held beliefs and draw similarities and conclusion. It is important to go through this process in order for society to grow in tolerance and understanding, to evolve and recommit to core beliefs.
Mayor of London’s Online Hate Crime Summit 2017
Posted on April 24, 2017 Leave a Comment
This morning I was up super early to speak with Jason Rosam on BBC London Radio to talk about the Mayor of London‘s brilliant new police unit to tackle online hate crime. The Online Hate Crime Hub is made up of specially trained officers who will work with community groups. social media organisations, academic hate crime specialists […]
Dear Twitter and YouTube, you need to deal with your trolls.
Posted on April 13, 2017 Leave a Comment
The 1st February 2016 was the first time I had ever been called a N****r. I wasn’t called a N***** once, or twice but three times in the space of 20 minutes by people online I had never met and will probably (more like hopefully) never meet in my entire life. Looking back now […]
Commons Select Committee’s ‘Women in Scientific Careers’ Report
Posted on February 14, 2014 Leave a Comment
As I mentioned in my first blog post on this topic, I have been looking into what the current situation/problem is with girls and STEM subjects and the methods that can be adopted to address the issues identified from a policy perspective, within schools and at home (and the community). On 6th February The House of Commons Science […]