Why football.london stands with Son, Aubameyang, Abraham and others in boycotting social media

At 3pm right now till 11:59pm on Monday, all sports activities channels throughout your entire Reach community, together with football.london, will be part of the boycott of social media as a part of the marketing campaign towards on-line hate.

So far this season gamers at all the capital’s top-flight golf equipment have been topic to horrendous abuse.

From Arsenal’s Pierre Emerick Aubameyang deactivating his Twitter account earlier this month to his team-mate Willian sharing screenshots of the racism he has been subjected to.

From Tottenham’s Son Heung-min being abused by Manchester United supporters, who’ve since been banned, to Chelsea’s Tammy Abraham and Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha receiving racist remarks to Reece James and his sister Lauren each being topic to racist and sexist abuse.

No dressing room has been spared this disgusting plague. Enough is sufficient.

That is why the Premier League, FA, Kick It Out and Women’s Super League have been joined by golf equipment up and down the nation in addition to organisations from cricket, rugby, biking and horse racing in staging the boycott. Above all they need the social media platforms to take extra accountability for holding hate out of our sport.

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As journalists this isn’t a call we take frivolously however we consider it is crucial that Reach titles add their voices to the requires higher motion towards the epidemic of on-line hate and be a drive for good in the communities we serve.

As the nation’s greatest sports activities writer we’ll in fact proceed to create the excellent sports activities content material – from Premier League to native matches – for which we’re well-known. We simply will not be sharing this content material on social over the weekend.

Our information accounts may also proceed to share the largest breaking information this weekend, together with protecting the impression of this boycott.

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