By Michael Gwarisa Zimbabwe is recording a sharp rise in technology driven gender based violence as new digital tools, including artificial intelligence-generated deepfakes and anonymous social media accounts, make it increasingly difficult to trace perpetrators. The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Cybersecurity and Forensics Laboratory has warned that technology-facilitated GBV is now one of the fastest-growing forms of abuse targeting women and girls across the country. Global evidence shows that two in three women have experienced technology-facilitated violence and 85 percent of women online have witnessed another woman being abused. In…
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