Inside the online attacks on women politicians Analysis of 3.2 million social media posts shows attacks on women often focus on gender rather than leadership. Gender 8 min ago
Applying a toxicity detection algorithm called Perspective API, we studied both the volume and types of “toxic” replies received by different candidates.
Women candidates face more sexualised, sexist and personal attacks as online violence threatens political participation.
Female candidates were subjected to personal degrading attacks, sexist slurs, sexually explicit remarks, and repeated attempts to silence them or question their right to occupy political space.
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