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Facebook, X/Twitter, TikTok and YouTube all approved adverts featuring extreme and violent misogynistic hate speech against women journalists in South Africa, a new investigation by Global Witness and the South African public interest law firm, Legal Resources Centre (LRC) can reveal.

Together with independent public interest law centre in South Africa, the Legal Resources Centre, we carried out a joint investigation looking at Facebook, TikTok, X/Twitter, and YouTube’s ability to detect and remove real-world examples of hate speech targeting women journalists

We analysed the latest Big Tech reports, published as part of the EU's Digital Services Act, and found that platforms are failing to properly invest in safeguards for their many of their non-English language users