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Helping end Gender-Based Abuse Online

The Tech Policy Design Lab pilot focused on creating solutions to counter the abuse of women online. This work led to a group of the world’s biggest tech platforms making specific commitments to take action and improve women’s safety on their platforms.

Deceptive Design: Moving Towards Trusted Design Patterns

Deceptive designs are built into website or app interfaces and can manipulate us into making choices we may not want to make. This Tech Policy Design Lab is exploring ways to curb these widespread practices and move us towards more trusted design.

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Using the Tech Policy Design Lab Playbook to co-design platform governance policies and counter malicious flagging

Using the Tech Policy Design Lab Playbook to co-design platform governance policies and counter malicious flagging

Asia-Pacific IGF 2022: Takeaways on Tackling Deceptive Design Across the Asia-Pacific Region

Asia-Pacific IGF 2022: Takeaways on Tackling Deceptive Design Across the Asia-Pacific Region

Tackling Deceptive Design Across the African Continent

Tackling Deceptive Design Across the African Continent

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"This is significant. Social media platforms are equivalent of an unlit street for many women: structurally unsafe. There has been so little acknowledgment of how they facilitate & amplify misogyny so this feels like huge breakthrough.
Kudos @webfoundation"

Carole Cadwalladr

Journalist

"Congratulations to the World Wide Web Foundation. What you all have done is extraordinary. The Ford Foundation is proud to have supported the Web Foundation and we are so grateful for your leadership."

Darren Walker

President, Ford Foundation

"4 years ago it would be a dream to have an international open letter calling on tech companies to do more about online gender-based violence. This letter is by no means the magic bullet (there isn't one) it's another stepping stone to make platforms safe for woman."

Seyi Akiwowo

CEO & Founder, Glitch