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What Facebook isn’t telling us about its fight against online abuse
Laura Bliss, Edge Hill University Facebook has for the first time made available data on the scale of abusive comments posted to its site. This may have been done under the growing pressure by organisations for social media companies to be more transparent about online abuse, or to gain credibility after the Cambridge Analytica data…
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Abuse of women MPs is not just a scandal – it’s a threat to democracy
Laura Bliss, Edge Hill University Following the intense election campaign of 2017, Labour shadow home secretary Diane Abbott spoke out about the racist and misogynistic abuse she received online. Abbott revealed that she was subject to a litany of abuse on Twitter. In a recent Westminster Hall debate, she described the comments she received as…
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You can tell more about a person from their Facebook page than by actually meeting them
Linda Kaye, Edge Hill University and Helen Wall, Edge Hill University We judge people all the time. Research shows that when we first meet someone, we instantly use features such as their attractiveness and facial expressions to form an opinion about how approachable and trustworthy they are. But what about when our first impression…
