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Radio 4,4 mins

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

Woman's Hour

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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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