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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

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

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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.

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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

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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.


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