Three of the world’s leading social networks — Facebook, Twitter and YouTube — are woefully lacking in their response to online abuse, harassment and violence against women, according to a new report card from the Association for Progressive Communications’ Take Back the Tech campaign.

After commissioning research into the corporate policies of these companies, the group gave Twitter and YouTube a failing grade while Facebook received a D+ overall. All three received an F for their “absolute failure to take any visible action” on a public commitment to human rights standards.

All three companies were graded on five additional factors including the following:

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