Other black and Asian women candidates in the 2017 campaign copped 35 per cent more abusive tweets than their white counterparts. Christel Yardley/Stuff Justice minister Andrew Little believes he receives less personal abuse online than his female colleagues do. Those kinds of debates that have consumed the country at times have been driven largely by social media and I find that exciting. The @ParityBOT_NZ account debuted on August 13, using machine learning to evaluate tweets sent to women candidates for “toxicity” levels. In the 2019 Canadian general election, it tracked 228,255 tweets sent to 314 women candidates, 9987 of which were deemed hateful – a “toxicity” rate of 4.38 per cent.

Source: Stuff September 04, 2020 16:52 UTC