Covid-19 and twitter: abuse towards mps decreased during the lockdown, but that’s only part of the story

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Genevieve Gorrell discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the verbal abuse politicians receive on Twitter. She finds that while this kind of abuse appeared to reduce in conjunction with the pandemic, the number of tweets refuting the existence of the virus were numerically significant, as were tweets attacking China.

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Copyright holders	© 2020 The Author(s)
Keywords	coronavirus, Covid-19, social media, verbal abuse, democratic representation
Departments	LSE
Date Deposited	13 Aug 2020 10:03
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/106040

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