“I’ve had people tweeting that I should be hung if they ‘could find a tree big enough to take the fat bitch’s weight’ ” said the United Kingdom’s Diane Abbott, MP and shadow home secretary. “I’ve had rape threats . . . and n*gger, over and over and over again.” A 2016 analysis of six months’ worth of tweets revealed that 45 percent of malicious tweets sent to women MPs in the United Kingdom targeted Abbott.
