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  Rana Ayyub is an Indian journalist whose work has exposed government corruption and human rights violations, and over the years she got used to trolls and controversies around her work but none of them have prepared her for what she faced in April 2018. She was sitting in a cafe when she saw it for the first time, a two minute twenty second video of her engaged in a sex act. She could not believe on her eyes because she never made a sex video but unfortunately thousands and thousands of people believed it was her. Ayyub said that sex is so often used to demean and shame women especially minority women who dare to challenge the powerful men, which she had done in her work. The fake sex video went viral in just 48 hours, all of her online accounts were flooded with screenshots of the video, with graphic rape and death rates, and lots and lots of abusive messages. An another online post suggested that she was available for sex and her home address and cell phone number was spread ac...