UK study quantifies Twitter's misogyny problem

Online abuse remains the big hairy monster in the room for platforms powered by user-generated content. Twitter especially has had some very sizable and public problems with problem users, taking flak in recent years for being the go-to social media conduit for orchestrated misogynistic campaigns, such as the #Gamergate example. Or more recently for being the training platform where trolls were able to teach Microsoft's ingenue AI chatbot Tay how to be racist and sexist double quick. Twitter knows it has a problem with users appropriating its platform to spread hate speech and/or harass others. Former CEO Dick Costolo conceded back in February 2015 that'we suck at dealing with abuse'.