Google’s Jigsaw unit has announced a new open source tool called Harassment Manager for users, especially journalists, to curb online abuse targeting them on Twitter. It comes after a recent study by Jigsaw revealed that women in general, and female journalists in particular, are more likely to be abused online. More than 70 percent of female journalists experience threats and harassment online, and more than 40 percent of these female journalists have stopped covering news as a result. Harassment Manager is a computer program linked to the Twitter API that…
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