As our online and offline lives become more integrated, gender-based violence and its impacts now overlap in both physical and digital spaces. Perpetrators of intimate partner violence, stalking and sexual harassment are now using digital tools, such as social media and GPS tracking, to cause harm alongside in-person violence. Digital tools have also opened the door to new forms of abuse, such as the non-consensual creation of sexual images through artificial intelligence, including deepfake videos. The result of these new digitally enabled abusive behaviours is what’s known as technology-facilitated violence (TFV).

This video explains the many forms that TFV takes, who the victims are and what harms arise as a result of it.

CIGI’s Supporting a Safer Internet project conducted an international survey of 18,000 respondents in 18 countries. The results show that online harms have widespread impacts and the need to invest both time and resources into finding solutions to help end TFV.

Learn more about this project here: https://www.cigionline.org/activities...