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Given the coverage in the UK papers after the abuse, I was surprised to find out only 34 of the racist tweets were from the UK. https://www.spiked-online.com/2
by gadders 5y ago
Given the coverage in the UK papers after the abuse, I was surprised to find out only 34 of the racist tweets were from the UK.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/05/there-was-no-outburst-of-racism-after-the-euro-final/ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/05/there-was-no-outbur...
And the graffiti on the Marcus Rashford mural wasn't racist.
- finiteseries 5y agoYou are discussing reports to the UK Football Policing Unit, not tweets. By 14th July, 1,961 Tweets had been removed proactively following the Final, with a total of 126 removed from reports. the UK was - by far - the largest country of origin for the abusive Tweets we removed on the night of the Final and in the days that followed. https://blog.twitter.com/en_gb/topics/company/2020/combatting-online-racist-abuse-an-update-following-the-euros https://blog.twitter.com/en_gb/topics/company/2020/combattin...
- gadders 5y agohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58094408 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58094408 "The UK Football Policing Unit received 600 reports of racist comments sent to England's black players after the defeat and judged 207 to be criminal. Of these, 123 were posted by people overseas, while 34 came from the UK." //edit// Yes, criminally racist tweets. A higher bar than Twitter's.