Nine months after Amnesty International called on Twitter to be more transparent about abuse on its platform, the organisation has published another study indicating that—brace yourself — Twitter still has a damning online abuse problem, and it overwhelmingly affects women of colour.
Twitter claims it has become a safer site thanks to all its anti-abuse efforts, but there’s no way to tell if that’s true because the company didn’t share any hard numbers behind its data.
Twitter is 11 years old. 11 years. It’s taken this long for the 140-character social media network to make any kind of substantial changes to its service to enable users to combat trolling and online abuse. But now that they’re here, Twitter is — hopefully — about to be a…