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Police and tech firms are failing to tackle trolling, says Stella Creasy

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Stella Creasy, left, and Maria Miller

Labour MP, who was a target of online abuse, says authorities and web companies need to use their resources to tackle issue Trolling is still not being taken seriously enough by police and technology companies who already have the tools to take action against internet abusers, the Labour MP Stella Creasy has said.Creasy, who was targeted three years ago by one of the most high-profile Twitter trolls to be jailed, said the key to dealing with online abuse was challenging the underlying inequality, misogyny and prejudice that fuels the problem. Continue .......


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