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		yakshaving_jgt on Dec 27, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vietnam Deploys Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful ... I couldn't upvote this enough. It's such a gross diversionary leftist tactic to discard legitimate criticism as prejudicial bigotry. So, Ms Abbott receives 40% of all online abuse directed at MPs. How many instances of abuse is that? Is it 300,000? Or is it 80 million? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/diane-abbott-i...

Joeboy on Dec 27, 2017 [–]

I haven't read it but the methodology of the study involved is available here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3bg_SJKE9GOenpaekZ4eXRBWk0...

Seems to be based on sentiment analysis of about 900k tweets. From skimming:

> Five percent of all tweets mentioning Diane Abbott, @HackneyAbbott, are classified as abusive (8121 out of 140057).

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