{"id":37560,"date":"2021-07-12T18:33:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T01:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37560"},"modified":"2021-07-12T18:33:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T01:33:58","slug":"world-disgusted-by-racist-abuse-toward-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37560","title":{"rendered":"World disgusted by racist abuse toward players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>he sports world is reeling Monday morning after an onslaught of racist vitriol was spewed on social media toward members of England\u2019s soccer team following Sunday\u2019s Euro 2020 final, in which England was beaten by Italy in penalty kicks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/etzpjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrsydrsz_eptrbbysyfrhshrspzrs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/etzpjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrsydrsz_eptrbbysyfrhshrspzrs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626221845007000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFdgF-ju_-pvVwPtq3IT7scVHJsAQ\">Marcus Rashford<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ugfmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhqwyhqm_eptrbbysyfrhshrspzrs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ugfmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhqwyhqm_eptrbbysyfrhshrspzrs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626221845007000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGmLcINmi6ERJ5NkEIaeMY74OG9vw\">Jadon Sancho<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/etbpjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrsydrsq_eptrbbysyfrhshrspzrs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/etbpjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrsydrsq_eptrbbysyfrhshrspzrs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626221845007000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE-gDgbpKoVKJaSEOllkdTXE4jOJA\">Bukayo Saka<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 who are Black \u2014 were the final three penalty kick takers for England during the shootout.<\/p>\n<p>All three missed, sealing the victory for Italy.<\/p>\n<p>It was a bitter defeat for England, which jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the game and hasn\u2019t won an international championship since the 1966 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Almost instantly, Instagram and Twitter became inundated with waves of racist abuse aimed at the young stars, all of whom play for top-flight clubs in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The outpouring of hate has received widespread condemnation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter\u2019s response:\u00a0<\/strong>Twitter on Monday said it is taking action on the growing score of racist posts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hqqmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqbnvbv_eptrbbysyfrhshrspzrs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hqqmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqbnvbv_eptrbbysyfrhshrspzrs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626221845007000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG9xj01zpvnPAdG6MnU_UacNl0q_Q\">targeting<\/a>\u00a0the players.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to The Hill on Monday, the social media company condemned the \u201cabhorrent racist abuse\u201d directed at the players and said the attacks have \u201cabsolutely no place\u201d on its platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past 24 hours, through a combination of machine learning based automation and human review, we have swiftly removed over 1000 Tweets and permanently suspended a number of accounts for violating our rules \u2014 the vast majority of which we detected ourselves proactively using technology,\u201d a Twitter spokesperson said in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he sports world is reeling 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