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Across campaigns, I’ve been called a liar, a pig and, most recently, a “whorenalist” — a cruder variation of the more common presstitute.

She has been subjected to racism and vilification, accused of being a “fake news”-peddling “presstitute,” and subjected to viral memes that superimpose her head on male genitalia.

The verbal assaults — most prominently featuring the terms “idiot,” “shut up” and “presstitute” alongside other sexist, homophobic and racist salvos — began after her news website Rappler published her investigation into the government’s social media disinformation machine.

“Presstitute” is one, applied to liberal journalists to accuse them of selling their coverage for money or influence.

But in the world of Twitter conspiracists, I was a “presstitute” working with “dodgy state actors” – a “paid propagandist” and “smear artist” engaged in “conscious subversion of domestic politics”.