ONLINE GENDER BASED VIOLENCE ON SHORT FORM VIDEO PLATFORMS - An inquiry into platform policies and safeguards

1990s, to apps such as Bulli Bai, and harassment in the Metaverse more The guidelines of the platforms included recently, online gender-based violence in the study demonstrated minimal (oGBV) is a pervasive problem, affecting recognition of the gendered effects of 23 per cent of women globally. [...] Using this typology, we analysed the mention of a type of harm but little policies of the four apps in October– explanation of the kinds of behaviours November 2022 by checking the policies that comprise it, such that for their inclusion of the above typology. [...] Another factor considered (though not necessary) for this categorisation was the acknowledgement of the gendered nature of the harm in the policy, either through the recognition of gender as a category or through the recognition of gendered harms like sexual harassment. [...] Threats Extortion Roposo and Instagram both have strong Instagram and Moj’s cover of extortion coverage of threats; they detail a variety are the most comprehensive; they both of acts that would fall under the definition address extortion based on the sharing of of threats and acknowledge gendered personal information and intimate or and sexualised threats. [...] In their content moderation policies, none of the platforms acknowledge how social and The lack of specificity in most of the cultural contexts play a role in whether guidelines, especially with regard to the something amounts to oGBV, the kind of gendered nature of the abuse faced by oGBV that manifests, and the users, leads to uncertain expectations consequences of the same in that region.