Following the launch of its "Toxic Twitter" report in March 2018, Amnesty International launched Troll Patrol, a global crowdsourcing effort to demonstrate the scale and nature of abuse that women continue to experience on Twitter. In collaboration with Element AI, they designed and analysed a dataset of thousands of tweets mentioning 778 women politicians and journalists from the UK and US. Key findings include:

• 7.1% of tweets sent to the women in the study were “problematic” or “abusive”. This amounts to 1.1 million tweets mentioning 778 women across the year, or one every 30 seconds.
• Women of colour, (black, Asian, Latinx and mixed-race women) were 34% more likely to be mentioned in abusive or problematic tweets than white women.
• Black women were disproportionately targeted, being 84% more likely than white women to be mentioned in abusive or problematic tweets.
• Online abuse targets women from across the political spectrum 

In a response to the Amnesty report, Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's legal, policy, and trust and safety lead said, "Abuse, malicious automation, and manipulation detract from the health of Twitter. We are committed to holding ourselves publicly accountable toward progress in this regard."