But first, its time for click. In the Public Interest for him to appear. Here are the thoughts of maria jeffrey. I am dismayed and disgusted by the way that the tories have played the bbc. Why was Boris Johnson allowed the oxygen of publicity for his Election Campaign on the andrew marr show, a u turn, given the bbc ban after he had declined to have his policies and behaviour this thursday, the general election scrutinised by andrew neil . Will give more than 45 Million People the chance to decide a process that the other party on the uks future. Leaders had been through. Is it the brexit election . But if the suggestion was that borisjohnson would have an easy is it the nhs election . Time on the andrew marr show, that turned out to be far is it an election that will show from the case. In a often acrimonious conversation, the presenter pressed new divisions that no longer lie the Prime Minister on the circumstances under along party lines . Which the London Bridge attacker had been released from prison. Well soon know. Amidst all this there is the usual there was no question. Under the conservatives, mudslinging towards candidates. He was let out. Under the conservatives. But with social media now this was a conservative decision. In the mix, a lot of it has you have been in power for ten years transferred to platforms because of changes to the law that like twitter. Were brought in by the labour party. Here at click we decide to take that i voted against. You have been in power for ten years a closer look at this outrage at the final few weeks. And have done nothing about it Jeremy Corbyn voted in favour of it. And we sent carl miller voted in favour of early automatic release. To investigate. For ten years, you have done nothing about it. I am a vile creature, im a traitor. You cannot retrospectively change. For ten years, you have much of it is misogynistic. Death threats, threats of violence done nothing about it. Dave mann was one of the thousands to some of my people here. Of viewers to reject the interview there have been moments in which i have had anxiety attacks because of the level of threat. Being called everything from a lying dog to a cheat, traitor or death threats. These are some of the 330,000 abusive tweets that prospective mps have been enduring in the run up to the election. But we wanted to really drill down into how much of this abuse was happening, who was directed to, the nature of the abuse itself and how it was connect it. So we teamed up with the think tank demos to produce exclusive new numbers in the run up to this general election. This isjosh. He is trained in algorithms to sift through millions of tweets to identify those that are abusive and aimed at candidatess. But the algorithm first needs to be trained by humans before it can sift through millions of tweets. Sojosh is teaching a click researcher to help with this monumental task. Crucial to this is how it decides what is abusive versus what is justified criticism. That is where personaljudgement inevitably comes in. What this gives us the opportunity to do is say right now, in british democracy, that is an insult. The algorithm is is about 70 accurate, and only includes candidates running for re election. But after just a few weeks it revealed some startling results. Around 334, 000 tweets, around 7 of the total, received by candidates, were insulting. That is ten for every minute of the campaign, minute in, minute out. And a lot of the abuse received depended on their background, their gender and their stance on brexit. What causes this insulting behaviour to arise . Some researchers suggest it is down to organised groups or disgruntled individuals. Those who feel isolated from the mainstream but who now can to social media. Hate is a tactic used by various types of organisations and individuals. They are unified by a desire for someone to respond to them and we have. As a society, as individuals, we have been responding and engaging with this kind of hate forfar too long. And so for the first time in this general election, we have seen mainstream political actors using trolling techniques in order to amplify their message on social media. So the three primary ones, the three main one were honesty, intelligence and accusations of treachery. When ijoined josh, i was surprised to learn that the main Party Leaders were not the biggest targets of abuse. At least as a proportion of all their mentions. Borisjohnson is down at the bottom. And Jeremy Corbyn isnt there at all. This is not a 1 party issue is, is it . This is much deeper than single attacks or single parties. 0ne candidate who received an awful lot was ian duncan smith. He was also sworn at a lot and if you are white you are more likely to be called a traitor and sworn at than any other ethnicity. Of course, there are human beings on the other side of the screen. Though i visited Ian Duncan Smiths constituency and he told me his way of dealing with this is to never engage. The problem is sometimes with elections and things, they feed it a bit more because they tell everybody, actually we all hate each other. We dont. I dont hate labour, i have a lot of labour friends. But the internet takes a bit of that anger and accelerate and makes it immediate and instantaneous and gratifying, like a drug. But abuse is not something that happens online. And a day after i visited his office, it was vandalised. 0ne one of the most writings surprising findings was that man overall tended to receive more abusive messages on twitter. Although this does not mean that what they did receive was worse or more threatening. These are broad trends. The experience of every candidate will change. For example, angela smith. She is being insulted a lot for her honesty and being called a traitorfour times more than the average candidate. This could be because she recently changed parties. She is now with the liberal democrats. She also voted against brexit. This was against the majority in her former constituency. And she says she has faced a torrent of abuse from anti semitism to misogyny. In order to stay sane, i do not look at most of the abuse directed at me on twitter. I just dont think any individual can cope with that. And you can feel the anger behind the tweets, and the anger behind the use of capital letters, the aggression. And i find that frightening. So it seems whether you are leaving your party or taking a stance on that ultimate divisive issue, brexit, it can make you many enemies online as well. Next, i wanted to see whether the type of abuse candidates received also tended to differ based on their ethnicity. What we saw here is that if you are a bme candidate you are more likely to be accused of being stupid, to be insulted for your intelligence. A good example is david lammy, who is insulted for his honesty and intelligence, and sworn at an awful lot. Earlier in the campaign, david lammy tweeted a report he had overseen, the lammy review, into the disproportionate of bme minorities in the prison system. And even he, no stranger to online abuse, was taken back by the response. I was staggered at the level of abuse that i received. That is an indication ofjust how toxic things have become. Most of the abusive tweets directed at me are really pushing deeply racist stereotypical tropes. They are tropes about being stupid. Tropes about being lazy. They are tropes that involve the n word. So what does the research actually tell us . There is a scale ten online insults every minute of every day of the campaign. They cut across the political divide but they are also determined by what candidates say, and who they are. And for sure it is notjust happening on twitter and notjust happening to politicians. So i think one of the Big Questions we now have is, as politics becomes more digital with each passing day, how can we make it less angry . Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services ran get it. A competition for children to design an app to design solve a problem. The prize, bringing it to fruition. After stiff competition from various Mental Health and well being concepts, this lot triumphed with their web app to transcribe School Lessons for the deaf and hard of hearing. A few weeks after their win, i came here to the teams school, Bishops Stortford college prep in order to find out a little more about what they created. So this is our connect hear app and how it works. It connects to the teachers phone and the teachers phone has a microphone so it will display what the teacher is saying in real time on the students phone so it will them learn in class and understand the lesson more. Can you tell me about your hearing issues and how this will hopefully help . I have 60 hearing loss and there is often a lot of background noise. This app connects to your phone and you dont have to worry about the background noise, you just have to focus on the person speaking. How much of an issue do you find listening in the classroom . I find it particularly hard when you sit at the front and people behind you are talking and youre trying focus on the teacher. And for lip reading, they need to be facing your direction. Yes. There is also the issue of children needing hearing aids re moulded as they grow. So how do they get started creating the app . We thought to ourselves, how could we had to put it together so it would be something that works. Nota gimmick. So after we found our target audience we sent the information to amazon, who judged it and then the competition started. And you won. How did that feel . It felt amazing. No one could believe it. When ready, the app will be open source so it will be available to other schools. But the process far, much like creating any tech, has come with its challenges. It is just a bit disappointing that it is not coming up perfect first time. There is an unrealistic standard but it is a bit disappointing to know that there is a lot more work to be done. This is part of a bigger picture. The direction we push kids in, in an ever changing world. There is a big misnomer in artificial intelligence. Everybody talks about al but they dont explain to the youngsters what it actually means. Ai is based on data. That is all that is. Built up data. And they can create things from data. That is a skill set that they can use in any walk of life going forward. And that is it from us for this week. 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