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cord-180457-047iqerh	Gorrell, Genevieve	MP Twitter Abuse in the Age of COVID-19: White Paper	2020-06-10		.txt	text/plain	5684	329	61	Following Mr Johnson's recovery, with rising economic concerns and anger about lockdown violations by influential figures, abuse levels began to rise in May. 1,902 replies to MPs within the study period were found containing hashtags or terms that refute the existence of the virus (e.g. This white paper charts Twitter abuse in replies to UK MPs, and a number of other prominent/relevant accounts, from before the start of the pandemic in the [1] Page 2 "infodemic": https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/ situation-reports/20200202-sitrep-13-ncov-v3.pdf, https://www.bbc.co.uk/ news/technology-51497800 [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-52731624, https://www.independent.co.uk/ news/world/middle-east/iran-coronavirus-methanol-drink-cure-deaths-fake-a9429956. [4] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/07/black-people-four-times-morelikely-to-die-from-covid-19-ons-finds [5] https://www.pewresearch.org/pathways-2020/COVIDCREATE/main_source_of_ election_news/us_adults Methodology In this work we utilize a large tweet collection on which a natural language processing has been performed in order to identify abusive language. Difference in responses to different parties Fig 3 shows abuse received as a percentage of all replies received by MPs, for each of the time periods studied in more detail below. https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1238365263764041728 (9% of replies were abusive, tweet received 3% of all abuse to MPs in the period).	./cache/cord-180457-047iqerh.txt	./txt/cord-180457-047iqerh.txt