Offering pest control

solutions for

women publishers

Dr. Michelle Ferrier, Sneha Inguva, Debbie Galant,

Berta Valle, Louisa Reynolds

International Women’s Media Foundation

Hackathon, January 30, 2015, New York

City

Online Harassment: 40% and

growing

Women publishers

experience

cyberbullying on their

sites.

General news sites

have struggled with

moderating online

commenting.

Women Live Online and That’s

Where They Find Us

Women Journalists Are Targeted

Online

What We Offer

S.O.S. Team: Countering cyberattacks in real-time with online community support and positive messaging.

RAID: Finding and outing trolls online and tracking where they operate using network analysis technologies.

SUPPORT: Providing technical, legal services and psychological services; resources for publishers under denial of service attacks.

S.O.S. Team: Just-in-Time

“Attagirls”

• Users who

report personal

harassment are

supported online

with users from

their

communities

• Push alerts go

to people in their

networks.

• Positive

messaging and

endorsements

combat negative

RAID: Community Clustering

Using a

proprietary

technology for

network analysis

developed by

Ohio University

students, we find

and aggregate

communities of

trolls and identify

who else is a

subject of attack.

C.A.T.S.: Clustering Analysis and Targeting System, Ohio University

Also Fighting This Battle

Trolldor | A global blacklist of Twitter trolls

NoBullying.com | Educational resources

Southern Poverty Law Center | Map of hate groups

No Hate Speech | Social media against cyberbullying

Cyberbullying.us | Research on cyberbullying

Committee to Protect Journalists |Fights efforts to intimidate newsgatherers

iHollaback | Fighting catcalling on the streets

Megan Meier Foundation |Fighting childhood bullying

How We’re Different

We help victims of cyberbullying in real

time by having our community leave

supportive comments at the point of bullying.

We track top trolls and their nests – out of

their sight – for a verified community of users

who have pledged not to engage in or ignore

hate speech.

We gather all the resources in one place.

: Our

Team

Dr. Michelle

Ferrier, U.S.A.

Sneha Inguva,

Indian American

Debbie Galant,

U.S.A.

Berta Valle,

Nicaragua

Louisa Reynolds,

United Kingdom

Offering pest control solutions for women

publishers