Ann Friedman, “ When Rape Goes Viral,” Newsweek Now that cases regularly crop up in which photos and videos of sexual assaults are circulated on social media, it’s becoming harder to argue that rape is anything but a public scourge. For decades, the challenge facing anti-rape activists was to take what is often an intensely private crime-54 percent of sexual assaults are estimated to go unreported-and bring it to national attention as a pervasive crisis.
