• Thursday, March 28, 2024

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BME women MPs want law changed to stop online trolls

Politicians have called for social media giants to address online abuse as data showed ethnic minority politicians receive significant more abuse than their white peers

By: Lauren Codling

by LAUREN CODLING PRIME MINISTER Theresa May last weekend urged web companies to do more to protect women and girls from online abuse, as several female ethnic minority MPs called for social media giants to address the issue. The prime minister made the comments during her speech at the G7 summit in Canada where she detailed plans to prevent gender-based violence, abuse and harassment online. “Following the UK call for tech companies to do more to help fight internet harms, they have already made significant strides in using new technologies to tackle online extremist content – and we now need…

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