Vincent McAviney: England player abused by racists slams social media giants

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 15, 2021 · 2m

One of the England football players targeted with online racist abuse after his team's loss in the final of the European championship condemned social media companies Thursday for doing too little to block "hateful and hurtful" messages on their platforms.

In comments directed at Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, Bukayo Saka said he didn't want anyone else to be targeted by the kind of messages he and teammates Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho received after the three Black players missed penalty kicks during the shootout that ended Sunday's game.

"I knew instantly the kind of hate that I was…