The racist abuse of Marcus Rashford following the Europa League final was "appalling" and underlines how social media companies have "inadequate" protocols to deal with discrimination on their platforms, according to the Premier League's head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Iffy Onuora. 3:36 The FA's Director for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Edleen John, says the FA will continue to 'challenge' social media companies, after Marcus Rashford suffered racial abuse online following the Europa League final"David de Gea got some abuse as well on social media. Unfortunately, this isn't the first time and it brings things back into focus and the social media companies have to do a lot more than what they're doing. "There is an awful lot of work being done by tech companies so in some ways there is progress but we need that accountability from social media companies to take that responsibility." "My message would be to the social media companies would be, do you have to wait for that legislation to come through which could be 12 months away?

Source: Sky sports May 28, 2021 09:33 UTC