Almost half of Premier League players abused on Twitter

Out of 400 Premier League players who were found to hold a Twitter account, 176 of them — 44% — received abusive messages

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Over 40% of Premier League players received abusive messages on Twitter last season, new data from the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) shows.

The players’ union worked with online hate detection company Signify to monitor levels of abuse on the platform in the 2020-21 campaign and its report also looks at how Twitter handled that abuse.