Beyond the Filter: Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

About this episode

This episode discusses the amplification of gender-based harm through digital platforms and AI, focusing on the Grok scandal on X.

In this episode of  Beyond the Filter , Brandy and Jeremy examine how gender-based harm is being amplified by digital platforms and AI tools, using the recent Grok scandal on X as a case study. The chatbot’s ability to generate sexualized, non-consensual images of real women and girls exposed serious failures in platform governance and safeguards beyond-the-filter-ep-11. Joining the discussion is Sofia Bonilla, Strategy & Partnerships Lead at the Integrity Institute , who explains what TFGBV is, who is most vulnerable to it, and why online abuse often escalates into lasting psychological, social, and economic harm. The conversation explores how AI image generation has lowered the barriers to abuse, blurred legal and ethical boundaries, and intensified the silencing of women, girls, and gender-diverse people online. References Technology‑facilitated Gender‑based Violence: A Growing Threat An Infographic Guide to Technology‑facilitated Gender‑based Violence (TFGBV) Measuring the Prevalence of Online Violence against Women It’s Everyone’s Problem: Mainstreaming Responses to Technology‑Facilitated Gender‑Based Violence Digital Violence, Real World Harm: Evaluating…

People in this episode

Hosts: Brandy, Jeremy

Guest: Sofia Bonilla

Topics covered

• gender-based violence
• digital platforms
• AI tools
• online abuse
• psychological harm

Keywords

• TFGBV
• platform governance
• safeguards
• online violence
• women
• girls
• gender-diverse people

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Grok, AI image generation

Books & works: Beyond the Filter: Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

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