The NGO added it had repeatedly asked Twitter to publish data regarding the scale and nature of abuse on their platform, but the company had so far failed to do so.
Female politicians and journalists of colour in Britain and the US are disproportionately targeted for online abuse, according to a crowdsourced study that found they received "problematic messages" every 30 seconds on average.
The assessment – by Amnesty International and artificial intelligence company Element AI – found that black women in these roles were 84% more likely than white counterparts to receive abusive messages on Twitter in 2017.
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