Report: 68% of Premier League players abused on Twitter


A file photo of West Ham’s Jesse Lingard kicking the ball during the English Premier League football match between West Ham United and Everton at London stadium in London, England, on May 9, 2021. Research revealed that 418 of the 618 EPL players analysed received at least one abusive tweet, with 8% of the abuse aimed at a protected characteristic, such as their race or gender. — AP

LONDON: Some 68% of Premier League footballers were subjected to abuse on Twitter in the first half of last season, according to a report published by British media regulator Ofcom on Aug 2.

Working with the Alan Turing Institute – the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence – Ofcom found that almost 60,000 of more than 2.3 million tweets sent to footballers in England’s top flight players during the first five months of the 2021/22 campaign were abusive.

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