The survey results show that both female and male MEPs face online hate speech. However, the female respondents are more likely to experience certain forms of hate including sexualized verbal violence, to feel intimidated by it and to reduce their social media activities. The issue will be discussed by Members of the European Parliament and Helena Dalli, the EU Commissioner for Equality, along with researchers and authors.

The event was hosted by the Professorship of Global Health (Janina Steinert) and the Chair of Computational Social Science und Big Data (Jürgen Pfeffer) and by the S&D and Green / EFA groups in the European Parliament.
The two professors lead the research project "Understanding, Detecting, and Mitigating Online Misogyny Against Politically Active Women" with Sahana Udupa from the LMU Munich. It includes the analysis of cultural differences based on case studies in Germany, India and Brazil. They also want to develop automated methods for the early identification of misogynistic dynamics.
Funding is provided by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt).