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TakeBackConTROLL: Charley

Take Back ConTROLL – that’s what a group of women are trying to do after being abused online. Here at Woman’s Hour we brought these four women together with a London advertising agency, Mother, to see if together they could come up with a campaign that would help them reclaim their identity online and find a solution for this growing social problem. Emma Barnett went to meet them and over the next few weeks you will hear Charley, Jackie, Charlotte and Kelly all share their experiences, ahead of them launching their campaign.

Today meet Charley – she’s 23 and a mother of one. She regularly uploaded photos of herself onto social media, sharing selfies at school or getting ready before going out – and she thought nothing of it. In 2016, she found out that her half-brother had been posting these images on an American porn website and inviting users to write obscene comments about her. Charley tells Emma how she discovered what he had been doing.

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