Commenters more abusive to women, non-whites
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The Guardian studied 70 million reader comments and its conclusions are not pretty.
“New research into our own comment threads provides the first quantitative evidence for what female journalists have long suspected: that articles written by women attract more abuse and dismissive trolling than those written by men, regardless of what the article is about. Although the majority of our regular opinion writers are white men, we found that those who experienced the highest levels of abuse and dismissive trolling were not. The 10 regular writers who got the most abuse were eight women (four white and four non-white) and two black men. Two of the women and one of the men were gay. And of the eight women in the ‘top 10,’ one was Muslim and one Jewish. And the 10 regular writers who got the least abuse? All men
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