An analysis of almost two million tweets by Ofcom has revealed that almost 68% of footballers were abused at least once on Twitter during the first five months of the 2021/2022 season.
Of these tweets, 1 in 12 targeted a player’s race or gender.
The social media giant says it is committed to combating abuse and knows there is still work to be done.
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25 comments
oh for god’s sake WHO CARES
Victimism
Abused… 😂 Maybe grow a spine
OMG! Words on a screen are so terrible!
And whose fault is that? Stay of the d*mn social media, people.
Gary (I'm a dinghy diver) Lineker! 😂🤦
many people would take twitter abuse for their salary!
😆😆😆😆🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣
Rent-a-woke Gary Lineker is on giving his unwanted views as usual.
There does need to be release of the hate and the despair to reduce the anger in society as most folks are treated like POS by the elite. Ball Kickers are ideal for this purpose. Better a Tweet on Twatter against a ball kicker than an actual punch in the face of someone else.
What Ofcom knows about this ? this is example creation another rubbish statistic
That’s awful. If we try harder as a community, we will one day reach our target of 10/10
Listen, Man United might not thank me but get the contract out, put it on the table. Let him sign it, let him write whatever numbers he wants to put on there, given what he's done since he's come in. Ole's at the wheel, man. He's doing it. He's doing his thing. MAN UNITED ARE BACK!!!
Footballers are not Angels and they surely abuse others too.They think they can do what ever they want only because they have millions. We've seen it with tax fraud from messi and cr7. Or the Payment from cr7 to an American woman that he allegedly raped/abused
Nanny state are we now.
That's right. NASTY ONLINE WORLD. JUST GET OFF. EASY. TOUGH SKIN F..kZ
The other 3 misread sarcasms as complements.
It’s time that people take this more seriously. People getting abused online isn’t something to make a joke out of. People who send those messages are stupid low life’s who have nothing better to do. Long way to go.
But then again 7 in 10 are probably rapists/sex offenders so who cares
I feel so sorry for people earning hundreds of thousands a pound a week that get abused on twitter.
My heart goes out to the multi millionaires…
Bullied
Don't use Twitter and they should be fine.
Not good enough. It should be at least 9/10.
Damn…I've seen some worthless news before but this really does take the cake. ha ha ha ha