The US social media giants said they were taking down racist and hateful content which had prompted condemnation from British political leaders.The actions came after a stream of abusive messages on Twitter and Facebook-owned Instagram directed at Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka, the three players who missed England's penalties on Sunday.
"The abhorrent racist abuse directed at England players last night has absolutely no place on Twitter," said a spokesperson for the San Francisco-based short messaging service. "In the past 24 hours, through a combination of machine learning-based automation and human review, we have swiftly removed over 1,000 Tweets and permanently suspended a number of accounts for violating our rules -- the vast majority of which we detected ourselves proactively using technology.
"No one thing will fix this challenge overnight, but we're committed to keeping our community safe from abuse," it said.Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden tweeted, "I share the anger at appalling racist abuse of our heroic players" while warning online services. "Social media companies need to up their game in addressing it and, if they fail to, our new Online Safety Bill will hold them to account with fines of up to 10 per cent of global revenue," he wrote.
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