13-04-2016 16:00 via theguardian.com

Online abuse: how women are fighting back

With the world only half paying attention to online threats, women are rising up to help each other, from strategy to supportFor two years, Michelle Ferrier was the target of a campaign of intimidation and harassment. The only black, female reporter on Florida’s Daytona Beach News-Journal, from 2007 Ferrier was targeted with a stream of abusive letters threatening lynchings and a “race war”, all in the same handwriting and from the same potentially dangerous person.But without
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