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- Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has launched Troll Patrol, a project that will assign digital volunteers to analyze abusive tweets aimed at women on Twitter.
- The project follows Amnesty’s #ToxicTwitter report, which detailed the results of a 16-month long investigation into how harassers and abusers target women on the social media platform.
- The goal of the project is to provide data to Amnesty researchers to develop an algorithm that can be used to automatically detect abusive tweets, putting pressure on Twitter to up its game.
Amnesty International is taking it upon itself to help police harassment on Twitter.
On Wednesday, the human rights organization commenced with Troll Patrol,” a project which will recruit volunteers to find and analyze potentially abusive tweets directed at female journalists, activists and politicians. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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