Racial abuse is occurring on both sides but there is overwhelmingly more hate speech in tweets supporting the No side, analysis shows.
In debates over the Voice to parliament on Twitter, more hate speech is evident in posts supporting the No campaign.
Racial abuse is occurring on both sides but there is overwhelmingly more hate speech in tweets supporting the No side, which have twice the amount of offensive language, a Queensland University of Technology analysis found. Accounts supporting the No side are considerably more active, having sent a total of 34,395 tweets compared to 20,244 tweets on the Yes side .Sydney Morning Herald/The Age
“We found evidence that the No campaign has a much higher concentration of recently created pseudonymous accounts that do not appear to have an identifiable ‘real’ person behind them. Australia’s chief union boss Sally McManus last week said “something different” was starting to happen on Twitter, with hundreds of accounts she had never seen before spreading racist content about the referendum.
Leading No campaigners including Warren Mundine and Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price have been subject to racial abuse on Twitter, including with the racial slur of “coconut” .Warren Mundine and Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.The nation’s top spy, Mike Burgess, last week said his agency had recently undertaken security assessments on the referendum, which he labelled a “significant event”
“This reflects some existing racist views in Australia and the additional anonymity on social media allows users to be more abusive with impunity.”
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