Misogyny & Women's Rights
How online misogyny and the assault on women's rights play out on the feed — and who is pushing back.
Misogyny & Women's RightsA WNBA Team Hired Counterterrorism Experts to Track the Threats Against Its Players
In late August, the Chicago Sky became the first WNBA team to bring in a counterterrorism firm and an extremism-research lab to sift the violent, racist and sexualized threats aimed at its players online. Analysts built to hunt terrorists are now reading the posts targeting women who play basketball.
An AI Undressed Women and Children on X. Now Its Maker Is Suing a User.
On July 15, 2026, Elon Musk's xAI sued a user it accused of using its Grok chatbot to create child sexual abuse material — months after the AI publicly turned photos of real women and children into sexualized images on X.
Andrew Tate Built an Empire on Misogyny. Now He Faces 59 Charges.
Andrew Tate, the self-described misogynist whose videos have drawn billions of views, was arrested with his brother Tristan in Miami on July 18 on a British extradition request. UK prosecutors want to try the pair on 59 charges, including rape and human trafficking.
They Called the Women ‘Cars’. German Courts Called It Rape.
On July 8, 2026, a Berlin court convicted a former doctor over a German-based Telegram network that drugged and raped women — the latest of several 2026 verdicts. Members catalogued victims with code words: ‘cars’ for the women, ‘fuel’ for sedatives, ‘driving’ for rape.
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When Misogyny Rose Online, So Did the Reported Violence
Research commissioned by London's Violence Reduction Unit and published on July 14, 2026, found that days with a rise in misogynistic posts online coincided with more police-recorded violence against women and girls.
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The Sister Strangled for Her Followers
Pakistani social-media star Qandeel Baloch built a following of hundreds of thousands by defying conservative norms. In July 2016 her brother drugged and strangled her, saying she had dishonored the family.
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The Review That Launched a Mob
A false 2014 blog post about a game developer ignited Gamergate, a years-long online harassment campaign that targeted women in gaming with doxing, rape threats and death threats.
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The Manfluencer in the Staffroom
Australian researchers who interviewed 30 women teachers found boys are echoing 'manosphere' figures such as Andrew Tate, driving a rise in classroom misogyny and sexual harassment.
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The Hashtag That Hunted Women in Games
Beginning in 2014, the #Gamergate campaign subjected women in the video-game industry to doxxing and rape and death threats. Analysts later called it a template for the harassment mobs that followed.
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The Doctor's Room on Telegram
South Korean operators of Telegram's 'Nth Room' networks blackmailed dozens of women and girls into sexual videos sold for cryptocurrency. Ringleader Cho Ju-bin was sentenced to 40 years in 2020.
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The Classrooms Hunted in a Chatroom
In 2024, South Korean police opened their first investigation into Telegram over sexually explicit deepfakes of women and girls shared in chatrooms. Most victims were female; most identified suspects were teenagers.
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The Bot That Undressed a Hundred Thousand
A 2020 investigation by the firm Sensity found a Telegram bot had generated fake nude images of more than 100,000 women from ordinary photos. Most users said they targeted women they knew, and some images appeared to show minors.
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Shot at the Wheel in Baghdad
Tara Fares, a 22-year-old Iraqi model with millions of online followers, was shot dead in her car in Baghdad in 2018, one of several prominent women killed as their public profiles drew hostility.
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The Rapists Her Husband Found Online
A French court convicted Dominique Pelicot and 49 other men in the mass rape of Gisele Pelicot, whom he drugged and offered to strangers recruited in a chatroom on the website Coco.
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One Hundred Women Listed for a Sham Auction
On New Year's Day 2022, a GitHub-hosted app called Bulli Bai posted photos of about 100 outspoken Indian Muslim women for a fake auction. It followed an earlier app, Sulli Deals; Indian police arrested several young suspects.
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One Hundred Thousand Messages for One Teenager
After a 16-year-old in France criticised Islam in a 2020 livestream, she was flooded with more than 100,000 hate messages. In 2021 a Paris court convicted eleven people of online harassment.
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Forty-Seven Million Views of a Fake
In January 2024, AI-generated explicit deepfakes of Taylor Swift spread across X and 4chan, with one image seen 47 million times before removal. The episode forced X to disable searches and revived calls for U.S. deepfake legislation.
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Fifty Rape Threats an Hour Over a Banknote
After Caroline Criado-Perez won a campaign to keep a woman on a British banknote in 2013, she faced weeks of Twitter rape and death threats, at times about 50 an hour. Two people were later jailed and Twitter added an abuse-report button.
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Fifty-Eight Percent, Driven Offline
A 2020 Plan International survey of 14,000 girls in 22 countries found 58 percent had faced online harassment, with the abuse pushing many off Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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Byte Bullies at the Ballot
Feminist researchers at Pollicy found women candidates in Kenya's 2022 election faced far more online violence than men, with gendered disinformation, harassment and body-shaming used to push them out of politics.
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Iran Built an App to Flag Uncovered Hair
A UN fact-finding mission documented Iran's Nazer app, which lets police and vetted citizens report women seen without a hijab in vehicles, flagging cars for penalties. It arrived alongside a hardened dress-code law.
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The Women Being Shouted Out of Public Life
Amnesty studied 228,000 tweets to women politicians and found one MP received nearly half of all the abuse. What online misogyny costs women — and democracy.
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