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Areas with misogynistic tweets linked to more violence against women

"That information could be useful for not only law enforcement, but also for public health interventions which may intervene to counteract norms of misogynistic violence," said Siobhan O'Dean, doctoral researcher at the School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, in Australia.

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Areas which produce a lot of misogynistic tweets are more likely to have higher incidences of domestic and family violence against women, finds a study.

Tracking such tweets using Big Data can help determine where violence against women is likely to occur, according to the study published in the journal Psychological Science.

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