Study: Men Are More Likely to Troll and Be Trolled

According to a report from the British think tank Demos, men are more likely to receive abusive tweets than women. The report analyzed 2 million tweets for abusive words, as defined by Google’s search language filter. The report found that men were also much more likely than women to troll others on the social network.

Out of all the tweets that men received, over 2.5 percent were abusive. For women, the proportion was less than one percent.