Peter Collignon, Jane Golley pay price of social media abuse on Twitter, Facebook

Steve Evans
October 15 2021 - 5:30am
Professor Jane Golley at the launch of the China Story Yearbook. Picture: Elesa Kurtz
Professor Jane Golley at the launch of the China Story Yearbook. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

Academics have been victims of vicious online abuse after voicing expert opinions on controversial subjects from COVID to climate change to China.

Steve Evans

Steve Evans

Reporter

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."