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cord-208179-9pwjnrgl	Farrell, Tracie	Vindication, Virtue and Vitriol: A study of online engagement and abuse toward British MPs during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2020-08-12		.txt	text/plain	13384	665	54	COVID-19 has given rise to malicious content online, including online abuse and hate toward British MPs. In order to understand and contextualise the level of abuse MPs receive, we consider how ministers use social media to communicate about the crisis, and the citizen engagement that this generates. However the correlation is significant across the sample of all MPs. The reaction of the public to the Conservative party and the government's actions during COVID-19 may be related to the conditions of a public health crisis as discussed in [58, 39] , in which citizens may feel more motivated to trust authorities, although it may also follow from the crisis engaging a different group of people than usually respond to politicians on Twitter. Our third research question asked: Which social media activities of UK MPs during the COVID-19 pandemic receive the most abusive replies?	./cache/cord-208179-9pwjnrgl.txt	./txt/cord-208179-9pwjnrgl.txt