"The proportion of articles that include terms relating to misogynistic abuse dropped to a dismal 1.3% of all global online news in 2025, the lowest level in that period."
"In Africa, where multiple conflicts have involved extreme levels of sexual violence, coverage sank to a nine-year low of 1.18% in 2024."
"What we concluded by doing this analysis is that the gender-inequality lens is all but missing from coverage of the Epstein story."
"It signals a failure by the press how little progress we've made and how far we have to go."
Research shows that media coverage of violence against women and girls has significantly declined, dropping to 1.3% of global online news in 2025. This is a decrease from 2.2% in 2018 during the #MeToo movement. In Africa, coverage reached a nine-year low of 1.18% in 2024. The analysis of 1.14 billion online stories from 2017 to 2025 reveals a failure to address the structural nature of misogyny and its role in enabling abuse, particularly in high-profile cases like that of Jeffery Epstein.
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