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Twitter Abuse Toward Women Is Rampant, Amnesty Report Says
- tareqak 8y agoLink to the findings themselves: https://decoders.amnesty.org/projects/troll-patrol/findings https://decoders.amnesty.org/projects/troll-patrol/findings
- Carpetsmoker 8y ago> The study looked at 778 women journalists and politicians in the US and UK, and found that 7.1 percent of tweets sent to them last year were abusive or problematic. What is the baseline for "abusive or problematic" tweets? What's the amount of abuse a man can expect? Looking at their methodology, I don't think this was taken in to account (it looked just at a cross-section of female Twitter users).
- tabtab 8y agoSo the online world mirrors the actual world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDoVckC6NhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDoVckC6NhA In short, men are animals and e-animals.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoMales receive more Twitter "abuse" than females: https://demos.co.uk/press-release/demos-male-celebrities-receive-more-abuse-on-twitter-than-women-2/ https://demos.co.uk/press-release/demos-male-celebrities-rec...