3 h. ago School drops Samuel Pepys’ name from house over ‘abusive’ behaviour towards women

Students voted for the move 1,764 votes to 1,054

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16 h. ago AIMEE WALSH: 'Elon Musk's Grok exposes a dark new way women and girls are being abused online'

Digital abuse has a terrifying new weapon. Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, is being used to degrade and humiliate women and girls of all ages - and the law is failing to protect them.

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20 h. ago Julio Iglesias accused of sexual assault by two women as one says she 'felt like a slave'

Two former employees of Julio Iglesias have accused the singer of sexually assaulting them in 2021, claiming they were subjected to 'inappropriate touching, insults and humiliation'

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21 h. ago Julio Iglesias is accused of sexually assaulting and slapping two women who worked for him as live

The women claimed they were targeted while working as live-in employees for the award-winning artist

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22 h. ago Julio Iglesias accused of sexual assault by two female former employees

Spanish singer allegedly subjected women to ‘inappropriate touching, insults and humiliation’The Spanish singer Julio Iglesias has been accused of sexual assault by two female former employees who say they were subjected “to inappropriate touching, insults and humiliation in an atmosphere of control and constant harassment”.The two women – a domestic worker and a physical therapist who were employed at Iglesias’s Caribbean mansions in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas – allege that the assaults took place in 2021. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Pupils at school attended by diarist Samuel Pepys vote to rename a house over his 'abusive' treatment of women

A consultation was held after a recent transcription of lesser-known parts of Pepys diary resurrected accounts of his serial philandering and rape. Critics said it was an attempt to 'erase history'.

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27 h. ago Spanish star Julio Iglesias accused of sexually abusing two women

In the latest large name to be drawn into the MeToo scandal, Julio Iglesias faces allegations that he abused the two women in 2021 when the younger woman was aged 22

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45 h. ago To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte

It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and childrenSome wars can’t be won. It can be hard to come to terms with this fact when you’re still on the battlefield, but if somehow you manage to step out for a moment, then the truth will become obvious. You have lost, the people on your side have lost, the villains have won and, if anything, you should have run away a long time ago.My own sad epiphany about Twitter, now known as X, came in the immediate aftermath of the US election in 2024. I’d spent a lot of that year lying to myself, ignoring the increasing volume of abuse I’d been receiving and the fact that no one ever read my linked pieces any more, but that week I realised I had to stop. I had to leave X for good. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Tinder predator's sick web of lies after faking cancer to abuse and scam 17 women

Conman Ryan McVeigh cruelly targeted vulnerable women on dating apps, making them believe they were in relationships before scamming them out of thousands and 'placing them in constant fear and financial ruin'

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4 d. ago Grok’s AI tool stripping women on X opens up a new frontier in systemic abuse of women in India

Arpan Rai speaks to victims of Grok’s sexualised AI images in India, where there are calls for Elon Musk’s X to do much more to protect women already navigating a highly patriarchal society

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5 d. ago Grok turns off image generation for most users after it removed clothing from children

X has stopped its AI system for generating images for most of its users – after it was used to generate abusive pictures of women and children for days.

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7 d. ago ‘I feel violated and dehumanised after X’s Grok AI stripped me naked’

Women say ‘objectifying’ pictures are being created of them without their consent – and accuse tech companies like Elon Musk’s as well as the government of not doing enough to protect them

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1 week ago Tinder predator who faked terminal cancer preyed on nearly 20 women by stealing their money and abusing them

A Tinder predator who claimed he was dying from terminal cancer preyed on nearly 20 women by stealing their money and abusing them.

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1 week ago More women reporting abuse in Norway as member of royal family to go on trial for rape

Country’s largest women’s health organisation says case of Marius Borg Høiby encouraging people to seek helpStaff at Norway’s largest women’s health organisation have seen a rise in the number of women reporting abuse and sexual assault at the hands of their partners ahead of the rape trial of a member of the royal family, saying they hope the case helps to “break taboos”.Marius Borg Høiby, the 28-year-old son of the Norwegian crown princess, is due to stand trial in February on 32 charges including four counts of rape, the domestic abuse of a former partner and the illegal filming of a number of women without their knowledge or consent. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘I’m Muslim and wore a face veil for the first time. Then a man tried to hit me on the Tube’

More than one in three Muslim women have experienced racist abuse on public transport, according to a new report

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3 w. ago The migrant social workers who RAPED women in Swedish care homes: Iraqi abused 100

According to a recent investigation, 398 rapes against women over the age of 60 have been reported in Sweden between 2021 and the present day.

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3 w. ago ‘Hidden crisis’ of 40,000 women and girls going missing every year due to violence

Women open up about abuse that led to disappearance, after government VAWG strategy is silent on missing people, as The Independent hopes to launch national lifeline SafeCall

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3 w. ago What the release of the Epstein files means for the women who say he abused them

Releasing more Epstein files is likely to cause distress and trauma, and could even 'stimulate a suicide' among the women who say he abused them, mental health experts have warned.

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3 w. ago Teen boy charged after women racially abused at Scots train station

A 16-year-old boy has been charged after a group of women were racially abused at Glasgow Queen Street station.

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3 w. ago Seven key facts about healthcare worker who sexually assaulted patients

Ieuan Crump abused the trust of women he was meant to be caring for. He was sentenced today at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court

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