during the Bank Holiday weekend, calling for big tech companies to tackle abuse and discrimination on their platforms.
Players, clubs, athletes, pundits, and a number of sporting bodies joined the four-day silence on Friday, while football clubs changed their Twitter feed icons into a blacked-out version of their logo.
In response to the sustained discriminatory abuse received online by players and others connected to the game, English football will unite for a social media boycott from 15:00 BST on Fri 30 April to 23:59 BST on Mon 3 May
Reacting to the boycott, councillor Stuart Carroll, lead member for adult social care, children’s services, health, and mental health, deemed this stance as a ‘relative success’, but thinks social media giants, like Twitter and Facebook, need a ‘deep clean’.