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We must silence toxic Twitter users to protect honest debate

I sense some digital fatigue. Respected news editor and serial tweep Oliver Mathenge declared Twitter unsafe for most of us this week. After carefully stepping over endless toxic hashtags over the last month, I publicly empathised with him.

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