Black, female and high-profile, Kamala Harris is a top target in online fever swamps
3 years, 10 months ago

Black, female and high-profile, Kamala Harris is a top target in online fever swamps

LA Times  

Soon after Joe Biden announced last year that he would pick a woman as his running mate, Democratic congresswoman Jackie Speier began warning Facebook executives: Female politicians receive the most vile online attacks, and the company’s filters were failing to stop them. “Keep sending us these horrific examples,” she said executives told her, “and we’ll take them down.” Concerns by Rep. Jackie Speier that the first female vice president would attract assaults from social media’s ugliest players have been validated. Speier’s concerns that the first female vice president would attract outsize assaults and venomous lies from social media’s ugliest players have now been validated. “It is also more likely to imply that they should quit politics and that they don’t belong in the public space.” Guerin led a recent study that did not include Harris but showed that American female politicians were two to three times more likely to receive abusive Twitter comments than male counterparts.

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