Bullying on Twitter has become unhinged. It’s time to call out the personal, sexist attacks – ABC News

Putting up with bullying has always been a feature of political journalism, but something has changed recently which is making political bullying far more insidious and increasingly challenging to bear, writes Leigh Sales.

Let’s not duck the common thread here — it is overwhelmingly left-leaning Twitter users who are targeting ABC journalists for abuse.

This is an unusual experience for ABC journalists because we are usually targeted in the real world by the right.

In the Australian corner of Twitter, the space is dominated by views that are militantly pro-lockdown, pro-COVID zero and pro-Labor premiers, and even the tamest of questions in those directions prompts an onslaught.

It is a matter for a commercial entity like Twitter to ask itself — and my understanding is that it is — whether the treatment of journalists, in particular female journalists, on its platform is acceptable.

Source: Bullying on Twitter has become unhinged. It’s time to call out the personal, sexist attacks – ABC News

One thought on “Bullying on Twitter has become unhinged. It’s time to call out the personal, sexist attacks – ABC News”

  1. “Let’s not duck the common thread here” would be apt if the pot wasn’t calling the kettle. A bit of good old fashioned investigative journalism by the once highly respected ABC is sorely needed (and almost certainly lost to the same ‘common thread’ – antidemocratic internet enforcers. That the ABC, and Four Corners in particular, has adopted the ‘no debate’ edict on all matters ‘Trans’ (with its foundations in screaming sexism) speaks volumes. The twitterati is but one medium of the unregulated internet (which actually is regulated, but not by government or for the common good). America’s public insistence upon ‘freedoms’ – while not so privately enforcing manifestly oppressive Traliban dictates – is ripe for investigative journalism. Come on Leigh, why won’t you take a look down that rabbit hole?

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