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Part Two: The Online & Real Life Harassment of Marginalized Elected Officials

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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Is This Harassment a Daily Occurrence?

Francois: It's so easy to think that when someone is being targeted in this way, it's individual and certainly it has individual impacts. But it's also institutional. It's also power structures that enable it or amplify it or profit off of it. And we need to start picking apart and calling out all of the systems that make this kind of harassment a viable thing for people to do. Francona: What if Google was, like, listen, Bridget, I'll give you $200 every time, like every, like, hateful tweet? She says she would accept some harassing DMs if they gave her $200 per DM. "We are absorbing the hate to

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