ANALYSIS: I interviewed Scott Morrison — then the attacks came rushing in
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The ABC's Patricia Karvelas, who had the temerity to broadcast a relevant text message from Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce during a panel chat on Insiders this week, has been taken aback by the social media uproar this campaign.The Courier-Mail's national affairs editor Dennis Atkins said Twitter users had certainly"amped up" over the last few weeks.
"So most of it is that, but I also think elections bring an increase in what I suspect is organised or loosely organised trolling directed against politicians and individual journalists," she said.
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