Women are abused on Twitter every 30 seconds, and minority women are harassed more often, according to Amnesty International. Volunteers for Troll Patrol, a crowdsourcing project set up by Amnesty International to process large-scale data about online abuse, sorted through 288,000 tweets sent to 778 woman politicians and journalists in the UK and the United States last year. More than 6,500 volunteers from 150 countries signed up to participate in Troll Patrol.
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Abusive Tweets Hurled at Women Every 30 Seconds: Report
Posted by: Richard Adhikari December 20, 2018 05:00 AMWomen are abused on Twitter every 30 seconds, and minority women are harassed more often, according to Amnesty International. Volunteers for Troll Patrol, a crowdsourcing project set up by Amnesty International to process large-scale data about online abuse, sorted through 288,000 tweets sent to 778 woman politicians and journalists in the UK and the United States last year. More than 6,500 volunteers from 150 countries signed up to participate in Troll Patrol.