‘Online Violence’ Campaign Reveals Rampant Dishonesty at United Nations

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‘Online Violence’ Campaign Reveals Rampant Dishonesty at United Nations

December 8, 2025 – Samantha Wall recently was sentenced to 28 months in prison for her “unrelenting barrage of [online] abuse designed to maximise fear and distress.” One of her targets was UK businessman Brad Burton, who revealed Wall’s “fabricated accusations calling me a convicted violent offender, fraud, stalker, have tarnished my name, eroded trust and devastated my family’s sense of security.” (1)

The fact that females often are the perpetrators of online abuse has been well documented:

The Women’s Media Center analyzed over 100,000 online harassment posts around the world, concluding that females were the perpetrators in 52% of all cases (2).
A Demos study examined 200,000 tweets using the words “slut” or “whore,” and found that half of these tweets had been sent by women (3).

But just weeks after Samantha Wall’s conviction was announced, the United Nations launched a Twitter campaign designed to whitewash the truth and stereotype men as abusers.

On November 25 the UN launched its “online violence” campaign (4). Unfortunately, the campaign baldly misrepresents the truth by ignoring the fact that men are as likely, or even more likely than women to be targets of online harassment:

Pew Research: A 2021 poll found that 43% of men and 38% of women reported being harassed online (5).
Digital security firm Norton: 54% of men and 50% of women reported being targeted by some form of abuse or harassment online (6).
Anastasia Powell: A survey of 3,000 adults in Australia concluded, “Overall, men and women were just as likely to report experiencing digital harassment and abuse.” (7)

Coordinated by UN Women, the dishonest campaign is being promoted by a broad range of UN agencies and programs: Human Trafficking and Migration; UN Development; UN Environment Programme; UN Global Goals; UN Office on Drugs and Crime; UN Volunteers; UN Women Africa; United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); UNICEF; United Nations Geneva; and the World Food Programme.

The campaign defines “digital violence” so broadly that it infringes on free speech: “Digital abuse or digital violence refers to any act that is committed, assisted, aggravated, or amplified by the use of information communication technologies or other digital tools, that results in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological, social, political, or economic harm, or infringements of rights and freedoms.” (8)

The campaign is so perverse in its dishonesty that persons have begun to speak out. The Nuzzo Letter denounced the Twitter effort as overt “propaganda.” (9) And journalist Lisa Britton criticized the UN effort, revealing how she has been a frequent target of female ire: “I face online harassment from women daily, some even telling me to go d*e for wanting fairness for all.” (10)

In response to similar ill-considered projects at the United Nations, US ambassador Mike Waltz recently called for a 15% budget cut and the termination of 2,600 bureaucrats at the UN headquarters in New York City. “We’re going to clean house,” Waltz vowed (11).

Contact UN Women: unwomen.geneva@unwomen.org or washingtondclo@unwomen.org

The Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance – DAVIA — unites 217 member organizations from 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. DAVIA seeks to ensure that domestic violence and abuse policies are science-based, family-affirming, and gender-inclusive. https://endtodv.org/davia/

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