Twitter and Facebook responded to demands about tackling online abuse
Big social media companies were asked to make some decisions toward the amount of abuse football figures are receiving online.
Following so many debates over the high amount of online abuse in football, many employees in the world of football have demanded that social media companies take action and tackle this kind of abuse in their platforms.
and
have responded to the senior figures in English football following a letter of complaint last month. The open letter, sent on February 11, to Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg was signed by Bullingham, Richard Masters (Premier League), Trevor Birch (EFL), Kelly Simmons (FA director of women's professional game), Gordon Taylor (PFA), Richard Bevan (LMA), Mike Riley (PGMOL) and Sanjay Bhandari (Kick It Out).
"The targets of abuse should be offered basic protections, and we ask that you accept responsibility for preventing abuse from appearing on your platforms and go further than you have promised to do to date,"
they wrote.
"The relentless flow of racist and discriminatory messages feeds on itself: the more it is tolerated by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, platforms with billions of users, the more it becomes normal, accepted behaviour,"
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