Seoul, South Korea
CNN
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Ruma was having lunch on a summer day in 2021 when her phone began blowing up with notifications.
When she opened the messages, they were devastating. Photos of her face had been taken from social media and edited onto naked bodies, shared with dozens of users in a chat room on the messaging app Telegram.
The comments in screen shots of the chat room were demeaning and vulgar – as were the texts from the anonymous messenger who had sent her the images. “Isn’t it funny? … Watching your own sex video,” they wrote. “Tell me you honestly enjoy this.”
The harassment escalated into threats to share the…
