THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE U.S MEDIA 2015

53% 50% 35%
MULTIPLE
other + incitement
REVENGE
PORN
DOXXING
Twitter took action in more cases of hate speech than they declined, but
declined to take action in most cases of doxxing, rejecting almost twice as
many requests as they took action on.
WAM! RECOMMENDATIONS
TO TWITTER ?
Building on the experiences of the people who reported harassment to
WAM!, WAM!’s observations, and the report findings, WAM!
recommends that Twitter:
NEW POLICY SOLUTIONS
Develop new policies that recognize and address the “tweet and
delete” technique harassers use to manipulate Twitter’s evidence
requirements, especially around doxxing. Doxxing, the sharing of a
person’s private, identifying information, raises the stakes of
“tweet and delete” harassment, but “tweet and delete harassment”
is not confined to doxxing specifically. The problem of evidence
prevents comprehensive resolution for all reports where abusive
tweets were deleted. “Tweet and delete” harassment is more
broadly applicable in terms of gaslighting on Twitter, and can have
impact on multiple platforms.
UPDATE REPORTING TOOL DESIGN
More broadly and clearly define what constitutes online harassment
and abuse, beyond “direct, specific threats of violence against others”
or “threats of violence against others, or promoting threats of violence
against others” to increase accountability for more kinds of
threatening harassment and behavior.
BROADEN ONLINE ABUSE CRITERIA
Update reporting tool design with a trauma-response in mind, in
order to acknowledge the potential trauma targets of harassment
may experience, and additionally, to connect targets of harassment
with resources for support.
EXPAND OPT-IN FILTERING
Expand opt-in filtering universally beyond verified accounts to
counter dogpiling.
www.womenactionmedia.org/twitter-report
Join the conversation using the hashtag #HarassStats
Pew: Adult social media habits were unchanged, year-to-year
Internet habits of American adults remained largely unchanged from 2013 to 2014,
according to the Pew Research Center.
Facebook, which 71 percent of adults used in both those years, remained the most
widely used among whites, blacks and Latinos; 71 percent of whites and 73 percent of
Latinos used Facebook during the studied years. The number of blacks on Facebook,
however, declined from 76 percent to 67 percent during that period.
Also, during that period, the number of adult:
Twitter users rose from 18 percent to 23 percent.
Instagram users, from 17 percent to 26 percent.
Pinterest users, from 21 percent to 28 percent.
LinkedIn users, 22 percent to 28 percent.
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