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Over half of misogynistic tweets are written by women…Or are they?

More than half the misogynistic posts by Twitter users in the UK and America are written by women, according to a new large-scale study that analysed 19 million tweets over four years. But what are they actually saying? Dr Claire Hardaker a language specialist from Lancaster University and Sue Jones from Ditch the Label, an anti-bullying charity who organised the research explain why it’s not so straight forward.

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