More than two in five Premier League players received abusive messages on Twitter last season, according to new data.
Chief Constable Mark Roberts, National Police Chiefs' Council football policing lead, said:"There are people out there who believe they can hide behind a social media profile and get away with posting such abhorrent comments.Evra: Racism 'will always be there'
The players' union worked with online hate detection company Signify to monitor levels of abuse on the platform and they found that 20% of the abuse was directed at just four players, although they did not name them. Twitter was notified of the abuse but Signify found that only 56% of the racially abusive posts were removed, with one fifth of these deleted by the account holder rather than by Twitter.
"Having access to this data means that real-world consequences can be pursued for online abuse. If the players' union can do this, so can the tech giants."
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