The impact of online abuse
Tech Life
BBC
4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
An international study looks at the online experiences of young people from marginalised groups, including sex workers, gay and transgender people, and people living with HIV. It concludes they are facing a surge in online abuse. We speak to Phong from Vietnam about his experience, then hear about the study from the lead researcher.
Also on Tech Life this week, find out how a drone company in Ghana has benefited from US foreign aid cuts. And how could catching the bus help improve your posture ?
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Presenter: Imran Rahman-Jones Producer: Tom Quinn Editor: Monica Soriano
(Image: A photo of a woman who has received online abuse. Credit: OcusFocus/Getty Images)
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| 0:40.7 | all of us around the world. I'm Imran Rahman Jones, and today we'll be hearing about the |
| 0:46.0 | particular challenges faced by some marginalised communities in four different countries. |
| 0:51.7 | The young people that we talk to, many of whom have no other place to go to get health |
| 0:56.3 | information except online, they wind up falling between the cracks. |
| 1:00.2 | That's the lead author of a new study looking into the online experiences of such groups, |
| 1:05.0 | and we'll hear more from her in a second, alongside one of the people who took part in the |
| 1:08.9 | study from Vietnam. Then we'll be heading to Ghana to see how their Ministry of Health |
| 1:14.0 | is using drones to keep up with the deliveries of medical supplies |
| 1:17.5 | after foreign aid cuts meant some trucks stopped transporting medicine and vaccines |
| 1:22.4 | across the country. |
| 1:24.2 | We deliver things like snake antivenom, for instance. |
| 1:27.1 | So that is something that can't be |
| 1:29.3 | stored across all small health facilities and is really an emergency product. And a surprising |
| 1:36.9 | way that might help improve your back pain while waiting for the bus. An algorithm compares |
| 1:43.1 | eight spinal reference points |
| 1:45.4 | and then estimates whether the spine is neutral, flexed or laterally tilted. |
| 1:51.4 | All this happens in only 200 milliseconds. |
| 1:54.8 | Music If you've ever sought out advice online, whether it be about health, education or money, |
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