There are user generated groups filled with jokes about rape and domestic violence along with gruesome images of assaulted women on Facebook. This week, Facebook announced that it’s stepping up efforts to eliminate such gender-based hate speech from its site after protesters sent around 60,000 tweets to advertisers making note of these posts. Facebook apologized saying it “failed to capture all the content that violates our standards.”
This announcement came after the weeklong social media campaign by women’s rights activists who organized around the hashtag #FBRape. This created a substantial amount of angry tweets and letters about Facebook, and especially its advertisers.
Experts say that women are the driving force behind the success of the #FBRape campaign. According to Lee RaInie, direct