Digital Discourse Database

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Naked Lady Politics

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 27.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | gender, politics, pornography, sexting, threat, Twitter
Summary | The author says that she teaches her daughter that the internet does not forget and that female nudity rarely benefits the nude woman in the long run. However, there seem to be contradicting cases. Women's and men's careers have been both destroyed and boosted by the leaking of nude images, sexting selfies, or revenge porn. Most recently, Donald Trump has been caught first defending his wife's honor and accusing Ted Cruz of posting nude footage of her modeling days to then later post images of his wife and Cruz's wife to make the point that his wife is hotter.
Image Description | Illustration with pin-up girl silhouettes.
Image Tags | female(s)

China Disrupts WhatsApp Service in Online Clampdown

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 18.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, Google, Instagram, privacy, threat, Twitter, WhatsApp
Summary | The Chinese government has partly shut down the use of WhatsApp within their borders. The app is widely used around the globe and was used by some in China do communicate with people outside of Chine with end-to-end encryption. Other popular social media platforms and internet sites like Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are blocked under the "Great Firewall" in China.
Image Description | Woman using a smartphone and women standing in front of Facebook and Instagram logos as well as emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, female(s), Instagram, logo, smartphone

Rumors on WhatsApp Ignite 2 Mob Attacks in India, Killing 7

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 25.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | fake news, law, threat, WhatsApp
Summary | In India, a piece of fake news has spread on WhatsApp. It said that a number of children were abducted in the region. Promptly, a mob has formed of over twenty people hunting down the alleged child abducters and murdering them. The police had however not recorded any cases of child abduction in the area.
Image Description | Image of people burying the dead after a mob attack.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)

Facebook Releases New Tools To Combat Revenge Porn

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Newspaper | Huffington Post
Date | 5.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, Facebook, pornography, sexting, threat
Summary | Facebook have begun implementing new ways to combat the sharing of revenge porn on their platform. These changes stem from roundtable discussions with women's safety organizations. Revenge porn, the sharing of intimate photographs without permission after a breakup (or similar), is becoming increasingly frequent. Facebook can now take down such images very quickly once they're reported and keep users from sharing such images again.
Image Description | Image of a Facebook like billboard and a video where people discuss revenge porn.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), male(s)

Adeline Lafouine naked. Swiss parliamentary secretary suspended

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Newspaper | Scallywag and Vagabond
Date | 7.8.2014
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | pornography, selfie, sexting, Twitter
Summary | The Swiss secretary who has been discovered in tweeting nude selfies from her workplace the offices of the Swiss Federal Palace in Bern has been suspended. It has been confirmed that she has worked as an 'adult actress'. Though she felt that she had all right to engage in publishing nude images and recording pornographic films without her professional life bein affected, her employers seem to think otherwise.
Image Description | The nude/risqué selfies posted by the secretary with pixellated nipples but with a visible face.
Image Tags | female(s)

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