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| Twitter shares its analysis of racist abuse |
Twitter has made clear that identity verification will not stop the English soccer team from abusing racist black players after the team lost at Euro 2020 last month.
According to the latest news of the platform, most of the accounts that have been banned due to inappropriate content while playing the game are not anonymous.
The platform noted that after the European Championship finals, Britain was the main source of racist news against English players.
The Three Lions' career ended in a penalty shootout defeat to Italy. Marcus Rashford, Jaden Sancho and Bukayo Saka failed on penalties.
The three have since faced online racist abuse, and police confirmed last week that they had arrested 11 people so far as part of their investigation into online racist abuse against English players.
The platform said: 99% of account holders have been verified in accounts that have been permanently suspended.
The company also explained that although the racist tweets came from all over the world. But most of them are from the UK.
The platform's automated tools identified and deleted 1,622 racist tweets during the match and within 24 hours of the match.
According to Twitter, only 2% of deleted tweets have been viewed more than 1,000 times.
"Since the February update, we have improved the proactive tools used to identify racial abuse," she said. We deleted less than 13,000 tweets, 95% of which were actively identified.
Twitter shares its analysis of racist abuse
The platform has faced a long-standing abuse issue. After a boycott in 2017, CEO Jack Dorsey promised the company would take a more proactive stance to enforce its rules.
Since then, the company has introduced more sophisticated features to combat abuse. For example, hiding replies or restricting who can reply to their tweets.
The platform continues to work on ways to prevent abusive Tweets from being sent. This includes posting reply messages asking people if they are safe using potentially harmful language.
Twitter is also developing a feature to temporarily block accounts that use malicious language. This way, they will not be able to interact with your account.
"We are committed to working with our partners to do everything in our power to prevent these hateful opinions and behaviors from appearing on and off the platform," the platform said.