SPORTTwitter’s response to abuse directed at football players on its platform has been absolutely unacceptable, the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) said ahead of a four-day social media blackout to highlight the problem. England’s soccer bodies are set to boycott social media from 5pm on Friday April 30 to 11.59pm on Monday May 3 in response to continued online racist abuse of players. The campaign has received backing from a host of other sporting bodies, including Uefa and Fifa. “Since the season started, there have been over 30 million Tweets from people in the UK about football. In that time, we have removed over 7 000 in the UK that were targeting the football conversation with violations of the Twitter rules.

Source: News 24 April 30, 2021 11:14 UTC