“To be very honest, the harassment works to a degree,” said one reporter, who added that she has become less inclined to cover topics that she feels are likely to draw the ire of online trolls. “To the degree where it silences me on Twitter and limits the number of stories I want to write on these topics — it works.”
— Read on blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/05/13/polarisation-and-the-network-harassment-of-science-journalists/