The abuse started when transgender model and influencer Sofia Taloni used an Instagram live to encourage fellow women in the staunch, anti-LGBTQ country to set up fake accounts on gay apps.
She said her aim was to call out hypocrisy in Moroccan society by revealing how many men are secretly gay in the country and using apps such as Grindr and Planet Romeo.
In a video shown to the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Taloni said that the apps will “show you the people who are near to you.