Polly Toynbee told in tweet abuse: Hope you get cancer

Journalist Polly Toynbee explained how she was careful about writing personal details online after she received threats, and was told in a tweet: "I hope you get cancer".

She spoke about online abuse and how some comments under her newspaper columns were "absolutely vile" with the worst ones removed from moderators.

The Guardian columnist spoke to Jo Colburn after they watched a Daily Politics about online abuse

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