Anna Babinets - attack 24.10.2025

On October 24, 2025, the Telegram channel “Baza 111” published a post targeting investigative journalist Anna Babinets:

“Babinets Anna Volodymyrivna – foreign agent | grant-eater, propagandist, justifying crimes of TCC, supporting or calling for the arrest of critics of the authorities, participating in the persecution of critics, financing and assisting TCC.
Published a Slidstvo.Info story calling for punishment of lawyers who help Ukrainians protect their rights from illegal actions of TCC.
Even though neither her ex-husband nor her current husband serve in the army.”

This case demonstrates a clear instance of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV).
The attack combines gendered defamation, disinformation and reputation attacks, and character assassination to undermine Anna Babinets’s credibility and intimidate her as a woman journalist. Such tactics contribute to a broader pattern of online hostility against women in investigative media, aiming to silence or discredit their professional voices.