School board trustee candidates received the highest rates of abusive tweets among all candidates in the last Ottawa municipal election held in October 2022, according to a new report by the Samara Centre for Democracy, a charity.
“The highest proportions of abusive tweets went to school trustee candidates Shannon Boschy and Chanel Pfahl. Respectively, 33 percent [743 of 2,221 tweets] and 32 precent [5,073 of 15,938 tweets] of the tweets they received were abusive,” said the Ottawa section of a larger report issued June 20, titled “Online Abuse in Local Elections: the SAMbot Municipal Report.”
