Women’s 2020 Democratic presidential candidates face a ‘general penalty’ online According to a study,

A new analysis of Twitter and coverage of the Democratic primary candidates for the US presidential elections in 2020 significantly longer be attacked spectacle around the female candidates often male candidates of trolls and false news accounts. The report, published on November 5, Lucina Di Meco, Global Fellow at the Wilson Center, used artificial intelligence, in collaboration with data-party coverage analysis company Marvelous AI for six Democratic candidates to follow on Twitter for the volume call the test each candidate between December 2018 and April 2019 Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar were included in the study candidates who are part of the broader relationship #ShePersisted entitled Women , politics and power in the new media world, these online conversations were analyzed official start of the campaign, between December 2018 and April 2019 a week after each candidate, depending on the candidate. Marvelous AI also examined the political polarization and credibility of Twitter users to join the conversation, and surrounded the themes and stories of each candidate. For each candidate for a week Tweets his football official start of the campaign were collected later. The volume of the conversation to all candidates on social media came to a similar clip on both male and female candidates for the production of about 40,000 to 50,000 tweets per peak day, with Kamala Harris than others in the field a lot more attention on Twitter. More Social Media attention to a candidate was not necessarily positive. The study found that the stories of social media on female candidates were more negative and focused on issues of character and identity, rather than the admissibility or politics. The biggest story on social media from across the political spectrum of Elizabeth Warren focused on his character, in particular the story that she “lied about their ethnic origin.” The dominant narrative to Kamala Harris focused on his identity, as “authentic American” because both of his parents immigrated to the United States has been the focus of identity and character largely sticking the standard for female candidates, while she was except for male candidates. The dominant narrative Joe Biden focused on the first round presumably touching inadequate, but that was still tied to his eligibility and not its character and identity. “The role that social media platforms Click optimization algorithms has played in the spread of misogyny and other prejudices now well documented,” said Olga Gurevich, chief scientist and co-founder of Marvelous AI. “I think that technologists now has the moral responsibility and the opportunity to help improve the injustice in the media, and this goes beyond that to change just the click incentives.” The study also showed that female candidates more attacks of accounts right and faux-News, but they were also covering the news media less traditional than their male counterparts. During the period of time in the studio revised, Twitter conversations about female presidential candidates were more biased towards the political right, as well as less credible accounts. feedback credibility and political bias of users in these conversations were with their link-sharing behavior on Twitter judged control based on the analysis of the project Done media bias, the prices, the credibility of English-language news sites. The study found, finally, the existence of a “gender penalty” for female candidates. This penalty is all too familiar mini Timmaraju, now managing director of external affairs at Comcast. “I noticed that when I became more active and gained more followers, I have become increasingly followed by trolls and obvious bots, publish inflammatory responses and comments to intimidate and harass our female supporters,” said the study’s author, about his women talk time as director Vote for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016. Timmaraju was interviewed one of 88 women leaders in politics, civil society, journalism, television and technology from 30 countries for the report, in relations General and traditional and social media looks with women’s leadership and representation in democracies. “It made me realize that the amount of energy that defend a woman in line to spend their positions and their reputation is overwhelmingly simple.”
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