Facebook, WhatsApp fertile grounds fuelling online GBV

Cyberbullies are motivated by perceived anonymity of online interactions to harass other social media users.

Photo credit: Shutterstock

Meta-owned social media platforms Facebook and WhatsApp have emerged as the top thriving playgrounds for inflictors of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), with the two digital sites recording 69.4 percent and 55.6 percent prevalence rates, respectively.

A fresh report published last week by the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet), which is a multi-stakeholder think tank for policy and regulation, defines TFGBV as all acts of gender-based violence that are committed, abetted or aggravated, in part or fully by the use of technologies.

PAYE Tax Calculator

Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.