General Article Anti-social media: 10,000 racial slurs a day on Twitter, finds Demos

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A groundbreaking study by the think tank Demos has found that 10,000 tweets containing a racial slur are posted on Twitter every day.

Researchers revealed the most common racial slurs used on the micro-blogging site included: "p**i", "whitey" and "pikey".

However, as many as 70% of tweets using such language were deemed to be using slurs in non-derogatory fashion – often to describe themselves or their own community – sparking debate about the extent to which Twitter truly is a platform for r...

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