This year's Love Island contestant, Kaz Kamwi, appeared on a BBC1 Panorama show regarding Online abuse towards women which also featured fellow contestant Priya and her sister Banji.

The two spoke to reporter Marianna Spring for an episode of BBC Panorama titled "Online Abuse: Why Do You Hate Me", which investigates the rise of online abuse against women.

"I am a dark-skinned Black woman, like that's the first thing that you can see; and I think to be attacked on that... it's so hurtful and so harmful, and the fact that my family was exposed to that; it breaks my heart," Kaz said.

Throughout the 30-minute episode, BBC reporter; Spring not only opens up about the abuse she receives as BBC's first specialist disinformation and social media reporter, but she also speaks to other prominent women who have received online abuse. She also talks with experts about why the police, the government, and social media companies aren't doing more to stop it.

"I think it was hard just because obviously [Kaz's] Instagram was on my phone, so I think I saw a lot more than people realise that I did," Kaz's sister Banji Kamwi explained. "And I didn't want to go downstairs to my mum and be like oh here's another one, here's another one . . . I kind of just had to be like block and delete, block and delete. So I just think it was a lot to handle."

As part of her investigation, Spring also spoke to a representative from Demos, a cross-party think tank here in the UK, that analysed over 94,000 posts and comments about contestants on both Love Island and Marriage at First Sight.

Researchers found women contestants received more abusive messages than the men and in both cases the abuse was focused on their gender.

Women were attacked for being manipulative, sneaky, sexual, evil, or stupid, whereas men were being attacked for not appearing to be masculine enough or being weak. It was also discovered that women of colour received more pernicious attacks based on their race.