Twitter and Manchester United representatives will meet within the next few weeks to discuss the racist abuse aimed at Paul Pogba following Monday night’s game with Wolves.
Pogba was targeted after failing to score a penalty in the 1-1 draw at Molineux on Monday and was backed by team-mates Harry Maguire and Marcus Rashford, who called on Twitter to take action against the culprits.
"Over the next few weeks, Twitter representatives will meet with Manchester United, Kick It Out and any other civil society stakeholders interested in hearing about the proactive work Twitter is doing to address online racist abuse towards certain footballers in the UK," a Twitter spokesman told Sky Sports News.
"We have always maintained an open and healthy dialogue with our partners in this space, but we know we need to do more to protect our users. Racist behaviour has no place on our platform and we strongly condemn it.
"To this end, we look forward to working more closely with our partners to develop shared solutions together. In the meantime, for Twitter's part, we will continue to proactively monitor the conversation, and take aggressive enforcement action when content violates our Rules."
omz222
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Not all White people are racist but all racist people are White, people who are involved with this evil have nothing good to say about themselves #we are with you PP
Zuamrstz
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Racists who have done on Paul Pogba on Monday must banned from entering Stadium life time!!!
Jaubiklmuy
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The truth is that, it is too difficult for whites to stop racism, they feel very uncomfortable when they see black people become better than them in some of the things. Sometimes it’s like inferiority complex. We are all human with blood and fresh and we all must die WHY discriminating each other ? LET US STOP RACISMS
fizzbizzie
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the racists should be banned but truth be told pogba needs to either step up or United should just let him fulfil his Madrid dreams and buy more commited players...
Mohsen_Af_07
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it's really shameful when few of white people doing some actions like this... there is no important what color we are, because the thing that is common between all man kinds is humanity not coloring... please open your eyes and your mind...think before you open your mouth...thNx
FaithEvans
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My personal take on this as a fellow black man, or brother, if u must... we call one another "Niggas" e-v-e-r-y time, and we're not offended by it, but I don't understand it when people say it on social media after a terrible performance, people like to use the race card to deflect from the real issue, which is that they (Abraham and Pogba) didn't do their jobs well... Both of them are much more richer and live better lives than these racists, so they can't tell me they are bothered by them... you can't be bothered by a lesser man, that's why most government don't care about the opinions of the poor, its a basic concept!... I'm sorry, but all these playing the racial victim is just cheap deflections