Recent times have seen a rise in abuse and racist messages for players, management and officials on social media. The world of football has called for help from social media companies and they have now replied.
Marcus Rashford MBE was a target for abuse on social media platforms after the young English man did so much work for children in Manchester and around the whole country of England.
Mike Dean and his family were victims of death threats after the legendary Premier League referee made controversial decisions that went against West Ham and Southampton.
Racist abuse was also targeted at Palace’s Wilfried Zaha, United’s Axel Tuanzebe, former Arsenal star Ian Wright and many more footballers through the league and country.
Marcus Rashford recently stated how ‘easy’ it would be for social media companies to stamp out the abuse by deleting account and the Daily Mail contacted social media giants Twitter and Facebook.
Football authorities sent a letter to social media companies this week asking for a ‘filter’ that would ‘block’ any racist message from being posted and Twitter have labelled this as unreasonable as it would affect their user’s right to free speech.
The Daily Mail believes Facebook to have the same view on the matter as they refused to comment.
This is incredibly disheartening to hear the social media giants refusing to help players who are being abused but football authorities will do their best to stamp this out.