Social media can be a place to make new friends, foster a sense of community and to share ideas (not to mention silly cat memes). But those benefits sometimes seem to be swamped by the negatives. The statistics back it up: a study by Amnesty International revealed that an abusive or problematic tweet was sent to a woman on average every half a minute.
Rather than accepting this depressing state of affairs, Seyi Akiwowo decided to do something about it (she has form in ‘doing something,’ being – at 23 – the youngest ever black female councillor elected to Newham, East London). Seyi experienced the very worst of social media when a speech she gave at the European Parliament went viral on Twitter – and she received torrents of abuse. Rather…
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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2019