Twitter abuse - '50% of misogynistic tweets from women'

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36380247

Twitter abuse - '50% of misogynistic tweets from women'

Half of all misogynistic tweets posted on Twitter come from women, a study suggests.

Over a three-week period, think tank Demos counted the number of uses of two particular words as indicators of misogyny.
It found evidence of large-scale misogyny, with 6,500 unique users targeted by 10,000 abusive tweets in the UK alone.
Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said that tackling abuse is a priority.

The research comes as UK MPs - Yvette Cooper, Maria Miller, Stella Creasy, former Liberal Democrat Jo Swinson and Jess Phillips - launch their Reclaim the Internet campaign, in response to growing public concern about the impact of hate speech and abuse on social media.

The campaign has opened an online forum to discuss ways to make the internet less aggressive, sexist, racist and homophobic.
Launching the campaign, Ms Cooper told the BBC: "The truth is nobody knows what the best answers are. There is more when there is criminal abuse, for example rape threats, that the police should be doing but what is the responsibility of everyone else? What more should social media platforms be doing?"

She said that the campaign was an opportunity for the public to "put forward their proposals and demands for the changes we want to see".

In response to the survey, Twitter's head of trust and safety Kira O'Connor told the BBC: "Hateful conduct has no place on the Twitter platform and is a violation of our terms of service.
"In addition to our policies and user controls, such as block, mute and our new multiple tweet reporting functionality, we work with civil society leaders and academic experts to understand the challenge that exists."

The Demos study also looked at international tweets and found more than 200,000 aggressive tweets using the words, "slut" and "whore", were sent to 80,000 people over the same three weeks.

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[Tyrannical]

We should have a slut and whore appreciation day to help combat this misogyny. Maybe the local bars could join in with a sluts and whores drink free night.

[Meekychuppet]

Five female MPs, each with an axe to grind and who are essentially single-issue whingers. I'm sure this 'research' is just watertight. The egotism of people like this is astonishing, wanting the entire Internet to conform to their whims.

[DaveDodo007]

It is the whole 'if you criticize A woman then you are a misogynist' bullcrap. So now any women who criticizes another women is now also misogynist. Individuals FTW.