30 Oct 2020

Thousands of toxic tweets towards women MPs picked up by bot

From Morning Report, 8:27 am on 30 October 2020

A twitter bot has been working overtime to find and combat abusive tweets aimed at female candidates in the New Zealand elections.

During the election campaign, ParityBOT picked up thousands of toxic messages about New Zealand women MPs.

Most were directed at Jacinda Ardern, Judith Collins and Chloe Swarbrick.

Jacqueline Comer is the Creative Technologist working with Areto Labs to bring this technology to New Zealand for the first time.