Lionel Messi has thrown his weight behind British football's social media boycott and urged the major platforms to take immediate action against perpetrators of online abuse. Only when they asked the Premier League to report it again on their behalf did Facebook remove the emojis. The club have asked Facebook why they did not take action initially but they are yet to hear a response. Barcelona star Messi is the seventh-most followed person on Instagram in the world and on Saturday night urged his 200 million followers to demand social media companies take action. We see and experience increasingly worse abuse on social media and nobody is doing anything to prevent it.

Source: Daily Mail May 01, 2021 19:39 UTC