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Across 3 years, 2% of a collected sample of 30 million Indian tweets contained misogynistic language, with rates increasing during the pandemic

10.25.23 | PLOS

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Violence against women on Twitter in India: Testing a taxonomy for online misogyny and measuring its prevalence during COVID-19
Across 3 years, 2% of a collected sample of 30 million Indian tweets contained misogynistic language, with rates increasing during the pandemic. Credit: geralt, Pixabay, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Across 3 years, 2% of a collected sample of 30 million Indian tweets contained misogynistic language, with rates increasing during the pandemic

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292121

Article Title: Violence against women on Twitter in India: Testing a taxonomy for online misogyny and measuring its prevalence during COVID-19

Author Countries: USA

Funding: This study was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant No. OPP1163682. The funding body had no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0292121

Violence against women on Twitter in India: Testing a taxonomy for online misogyny and measuring its prevalence during COVID-19

25-Oct-2023

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Keywords

Covid 19 Gender Studies Mass Media Media Violence Social Media Social Sciences Violence

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0292121
Article Publication Date
2023-10-25
Article Title
Violence against women on Twitter in India: Testing a taxonomy for online misogyny and measuring its prevalence during COVID-19
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
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How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2023, October 25). Across 3 years, 2% of a collected sample of 30 million Indian tweets contained misogynistic language, with rates increasing during the pandemic. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LN2NNP41/across-3-years-2-of-a-collected-sample-of-30-million-indian-tweets-contained-misogynistic-language-with-rates-increasing-during-the-pandemic.html
MLA:
"Across 3 years, 2% of a collected sample of 30 million Indian tweets contained misogynistic language, with rates increasing during the pandemic." Brightsurf News, Oct. 25 2023, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LN2NNP41/across-3-years-2-of-a-collected-sample-of-30-million-indian-tweets-contained-misogynistic-language-with-rates-increasing-during-the-pandemic.html.