Stopping the Twitter Trolls

Four years ago on Invasion Day 2018 Tarneen Onus-Williams was relentlessly and violently trolled on Twitter for a speech she gave at a protest. Social media abuse tries to shut people down. It is frighteningly common for women, for Indigenous women and women of colour.  This is the story of how Amnesty crowdsourced thousands of volunteers to patrol twitter and see if they could stop it 

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