vendredi 15 mai 2015

New report looks for patterns in Twitter harassment

Twitter harassment is a problem, but how do you even judge its scope, let alone fix it? That's a question that feminist activist group Women, Action, and the Media set out to answer last year. The group got approval from Twitter to accept and submit harassment reports, giving them a chance to analyze them and put together a picture of who is complaining about accounts or tweets, what they're looking at, and how Twitter might be able to help.

The report, which is currently available on WAM's site, follows a Pew survey about general hostile behavior online. That study found that, among other things, around a quarter of young men and women had been physically threatened online, and a quarter of young women had been sexually harassed. WAM...

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New report looks for patterns in Twitter harassment

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