‘I’ve taken a step back from social media’
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Last Friday, Conservative MP Sir David Amess was killed in his constituency. It’s been five years since the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox and SNP MP Carol Monaghan is another MP who has suffered online abuse including death threats. While in-person attacks are rare, politicians continue to endure sustained abuse online. So what’s driving this abuse and what can be done to combat it?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.5 | Hi, you're listening to |
| 0:13.5 | Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.5 | that brings you an inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:17.8 | coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.0 | It is 16 minutes past two on Thursday the 21st of October. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. |
| 0:27.2 | And today I'm joined by. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm Lindsay Buse, a political correspondent in Edinburgh. |
| 0:32.9 | And I'm Rajeebis. |
| 0:34.1 | And they're also a political correspondent but based in Westminster. |
| 0:37.5 | So it's Lindsay Rajeep and myself this week. Nick and Phil are both off. Now last Friday |
| 0:44.5 | the Conservative MP Sir David Amos was killed in his constituency. It's also been five years |
| 0:51.0 | since the murder of the Labour MP Joe Cox. Now these in-person attacks |
| 0:55.5 | are rare, but increasingly we're hearing more and more from politicians about the level of |
| 1:00.6 | abuse they're facing online. Carol Monaghan is the SNPMP for Glasgow Northwest and Ellen Judson |
| 1:07.7 | analyzes social media at the cross-party think tank Demos. |
| 1:11.4 | Thank you both for coming on to the podcast this week. |
| 1:14.6 | Hi there. |
| 1:15.7 | Hi, thanks for having us. |
| 1:17.2 | You're both very welcome. |
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