Cecilia Maundu, a broadcast journalist and a digital security trainer, is one of the thousands of women in Kenya in public spaces whose lives have faced online technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TF-GBV).
She is the host of the 'digital dada podcast,' a podcast focused on discussions around online violence against women and digital security.
The podcast challenges the misconception that online violence is not "real violence" by sharing conversations with women journalists and public leaders who have experienced such violence.
Speaking to KNA Maundu recalls her experience and how she was forced to pull down one of her podcast episodes during Covid -19 period after trolling on the internet became relentless. "The trolling was relentless," she recalls, her voice heavy. "It felt like an unending nightmare." Maundu says all her hard work vanished in a click of a button after taking down the episode in a frantic effort to protect her interviewees and herself from further online abuse.
