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What’s Happening on Foreign Correspondent Tonight Thursday 13 October on ABC TV
What’s Happening on Foreign Correspondent Tonight Thursday 13 October on ABC TV; Tonight’s edition comes from the BBC’s Panorama strand.
Men trade explicit and intimate images and videos of women in chat rooms and other online forums, frequently without the women’s permission. On well-known social media sites the content is being traded and shared.
This BBC Panorama report by Monika Plaha looks into a thriving underground scene where men routinely share thousands of images in closed chat groups.
“This is not a phenomenon of perverts or weirdoes or other oddballs who are doing this. There’s too many of them,” says law professor Clare McGlynn. “It’s tens of thousands of men, average men.”
Plaha looks into a well-known Reddit forum where up to 20,000 users, many of whom use fictitious names, post explicit pictures and videos of women. She observes that the harassment women experience online sometimes manifests itself in real life.
“I got a, like DM from this random account saying that they found my image,” says one woman whose Instagram photo was posted onto a Reddit site. “I get them every day. They want me in a hotel and people ask me if I take money.”
Additionally, Plaha learns that one group of British women is especially at risk.
“If you are a South Asian girl who’s been conditioned to not talk about these issues, you don’t have the ability to go and talk to your mom necessarily or your sister or your aunt,” says Natasha Rattu from the charity Karma Nirvana.
“We’ve had women and girls that have rang the helpline absolutely petrified that images are going to be leaked, where they’re being blackmailed to pay money.”
One of the young women whose pictures are being circulated issues a strong request to those involved.
“My message out there is for all the people that are doing this, please just stop this.”
8pm Thursday on ABC.
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