I can't stand group chats. After skyrocketing to global stardom since achieving gold at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, online trolls took it upon themselves to belittle her choice to represent one country over another and criticism about her looks mounted, with several people questioning whether she had the goods to back up female empowerment. In a switch from most …
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Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer at the centre of a gender dispute at the Paris Olympic Games, has filed a legal complaint against the social media platform X for harassment. Citing court documents, the French newspaper Le Monde reported that the boxing champion “filed a complaint against X” with the Paris correctional court, the national centre for combating online harassment. …
Gender bias and stereotypes corresponding to certain occupations are prevalent on digital and social media platforms such as Twitter, says a study. Online images of men and women in four professions - librarian, nurse, computer programmer and civil engineer - tend to represent and reinforce existing gender stereotypes, said the study published in the Journal of the Association for Information …
