MPs receive more than 130,000 offensive tweets over a six-week period.
By Paul Lynch, Pete Sherlock & Paul BradshawMore than 3,000 offensive tweets are sent to UK Members of Parliament every day, a BBC investigation into the extent of online abuse has found.
Female MPs were more likely to be called "thick" and "ignorant" and be subject to sexualised language while their male counterparts were more likely to be called "liars" "Sadly, women politicians suffer huge amounts of thinly-veiled or completely direct rape and sexual violence threats," she said. Other MPs to receive the highest number of offensive tweets included former culture secretary Nadine Dorries , Rishi Sunak , who was then Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer .Among them was Mansfield's Conservative MP Ben Bradley. He was mentioned in hundreds of toxic-rated tweets after arguing for the privatisation of Channel 4.
She said social media was becoming increasingly "democratically dangerous" in the way it was shaping debate and normalising misogyny.
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