Facebook, Google, etc. “Agree to resolve the issue of slander against women”

At the UN’s All Generations Aiming for Equality Forum held on July 1 (local time), the CEOs of Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok addressed the issue of defamation of women online, saying they promised to improve women’s safety within the platform. It was published by the World Wide Web Foundation (WWWF).

There is a lot of slander and harassment of women online. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, a UK research institute, 38% of women worldwide have been victimized by slander or other damage in one year from May 2019. To cope with this, WWWF submitted an open letter signed by more than 200 famous people from each country to the CEOs of the four major social media platforms.

In the letter, WWWF told CEOs that this forum brought together global leaders to agree on a plan to advance women’s rights, a historic opportunity for the world’s most powerful platform CEO to address defamation of women and girls. The platform used by billions of people has a responsibility to prevent harm to women, and he heard specific measures to improve it.

The improvement proposed by the WWWF is to allow fine-grained control over who can reply to posts or comments, to actively reduce female-visible abusive posts, and to make it easy for women to report slander and check the status of their actions. . WWF requested a company-specific review of all cases.

Following this, the companies agreed on the letter that WWWF has made to promote women’s rights. According to WWWF, companies ensure that these are processed within a set timeframe and regularly publish implementation progress and insights. Accordingly, WWWF said that it reports annually on how each company has carried out its business.

The WWWF announcement did not comment individually, but Twitter said its top priority was to keep everyone using its platform safe and free from slander. said he was looking forward to it. TikTok said it is proud to announce that it is moving into the individuality initiative, saying it will begin some development and testing over the next several months to address priorities and make TikTok a safer place than ever for women.

WWWF said the agreement was a big win and should be an opportunity for companies to prioritize resolving slander against women. Related information can be found here.