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Twitter says UK 'by far' main origin of comments after Euro 2020 final

Twitter says UK 'by far' main origin of comments after Euro 2020 final

Twitter says UK 'by far' main origin of comments after Euro 2020 final
10 August 2021

The UK was "by far" the main origin of the "abhorrent racist abuse" on Twitter after England lost the Euro 2020 final, the social media platform has said.

Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho were abused after missing in the penalty shootout loss to Italy.

Twitter removed 1,622 tweets in the next 24 hours but identify verification "would have been unlikely to prevent the abuse",

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