The five prominent women who participated in the study are Amber Heard, “Aquaman” and “Justice League” actress; Rachel Riley, broadcaster on the UK quiz show “Countdown”; Jamie Klingler, co-founder of Reclaim These Streets; Byrony Gordon, award-winning journalist and author; and Sharan Dhaliwal, co-founder of Burnt Roti magazine — most of whom live in the UK. With a combined total of 4.8 million followers on Instagram, the contents of the DMs they received ranged from image-based sexual abuse to threats of sexual violence.
Dhawali said she received 120 unsolicited messages from strangers during an eight-day period asking if they can lick her, as well as several explicit messages about her body hair. Riley received 26 unsolicited messages from various people detailing their sexual fantasies about her, Klingler got an untold number of messages that either solicited sex from her or asked her to be a “sugar mommy” to younger men, even though she told the researchers her Instagram account was devoid of such content to begin with, and Gordon received abusive messages about her weight, which triggered her as she had struggled with bulimia in the past.
Heard received numerous death threats that were made toward her, her family, and her infant daughter. After filing multiple police reports about the death threats, she renounced using Instagram because it impacted her mental health to the point of being paranoid and frustrated over the platform’s alleged failure to address the abuse she faced.
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