The center said it collected the abusive comments this summer from the Instagram accounts of 10 female officeholders — five Republicans and five Democrats.
Some comments included explicit language about rape, injury or death in connection with the female politicians, and Instagram left them up, the center said.
The center said 92% of 105 abusive comments targeting Harris were still online a week after it reported them to Instagram.
About 1 in 25 replies to female politicians on Instagram are likely to be toxic, according to the center’s analysis of a set of 421,361 comments.
Of the 1,000 samples researchers examined, 221 comments were from accounts that had previously targeted the female politicians in the study, it said.
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Organizations:
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