Seven out of ten women experience digital violence: hate messages through messenger services, publicly visible hate postings, calls for serious violence and abuse, cyberstalking, sharing of intimate images without consent, but also the disclosure of private data to expose these women to physical dangers.
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The 70% figure specifically refers to women human rights defenders, activists and journalists - a specific professional group in public life, not women in general.
The statistic comes from a December 2025 UN Women report, meaning the data was published very close to or after the claim date of February 2026.
The claim omits that this is a survey of women in specific professional roles who are more exposed to public scrutiny and online attacks, not a representative sample of the general female population.
Four in ten of those surveyed also reported experiencing offline attacks connected to digital abuse, showing the spillover effect from online to physical violence.