Death threat MP says social media abuse must stop

Key Facts

• Carol Monaghan is asking why people should have to accept vicious online abuse as "part of the job" A Scottish MP who moved herself to a safe house after a death threat has said she is "shocked and upset" by the death of Sir David Amess.
• She blamed social media for intensifying the problem and "emboldening" people to make threats.
• The MP said social media companies had failed to take action to tackle online abuse and it needed to be cleaned up.
• Ms Monaghan said MPs were told that abuse and threats "goes with the territory and they should grow a thick skin".

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