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Troll armies, 'deepfake' porn videos and violent threats. How Twitter became so toxic for India's women politicians - IAMC
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Troll armies, ‘deepfake’ porn videos and violent threats. How Twitter became so toxic for India’s women politicians

Sitting on a wicker chair in her East Delhi office, Kavita Krishnan readjusts her glasses and scrolls through Twitter, surveying the latest slew of abusive messages.… The politician and activist, a powerful voice for women’s rights in India, says she receives near “nonstop” harassment – anywhere from 50 to 100 abusive messages a day on Twitter – for being an outspoken critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).…

“These trolls … they are going after me regularly, routinely, for my skin color, for my looks, telling me I’m not worth raping, what kind of torture and rape I should be subjected to, telling me what kind of men I should be sleeping with … and on and on and on, more and more,” Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association and a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, tells CNN.

“There is an organized army of far-right trolls on Indian social media, which belong to the ruling party, they are basically trained to target you for anything,” she adds.…

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/22/india/india-women-politicians-trolling-amnesty-asequals-intl/index.html

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