Three France players received racial abuse on social media after their World Cup final defeat to Argentina.
Aurelien Tchouameni, Kingsley Coman and Randal Kolo Muani, who all featured in the final, were subjected to vile messages on their accounts, as reported by The Athletic.
Tchouameni and Coman missed penalties in the shootout, while Kolo Muani missed a chance to win the game in extra-time.
The trio received messages that included banana and monkey emojis.
Meta, which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, condemned the abusive posts and said that the messages have been removed.
A spokesperson for Meta said: 'We don't want racist abuse on Instagram, and we've removed the disgusting comments for breaking our rules.
'We also want to help protect people from having to see this abuse in the first place, which is why we've developed Hidden Words, a feature that filters offensive comments and DMs, and Limits, which hides comments and DMs from people who don't follow you, or only followed you recently.
'We're in touch with players and their teams directly, including since yesterday's final, to offer them support and help them turn on these tools.'
Real Madrid's Tchouameni has limited comments on his Instagram posts. Kolo Muani of Eintracht Frankfurt has turned them off. Coman, of Bayern Munich, is still accepting comments.
The abuse received by the French players is similar to what occurred following England's loss to Italy on penalties in the final of Euro 2020 last year.
After that game Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho, who all missed penalties, received racist abuse online.
LyngdohPerisic
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when you Win you're France when you lose you're African
Muñchëńłêgęńdš
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koeman is a hero ... he turned the match upside down when he entered the field. tchuamini was the hero against england and he is still young ... full respect to them as for the racist plz find something constructive to do in the world instead of insults
Word.
Tuzaklsuz
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only senseless people will abuse them
ST-B
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koeman is a hero ... he turned the match upside down when he entered the field. tchuamini was the hero against england and he is still young ... full respect to them as for the racist plz find something constructive to do in the world instead of insults
TheO2man
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FIFA should introduce a law in the game to allow players who are racially abused while playing for adopted countries, to switch nationality to their original or native country in protest if they so wish.
Youngking10
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that's the reason i will never support France, Portugal, Italy no matter what u did for them they will later tell you that bro u are immigrant from Cameroon Guinea Bissau Togo Mali etc
claude_Ach
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I'm surprise Dembele wasn't included
claude_Ach
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Whether you die for them, they'll will still say your died a horrible death and this is what you get when you disrespect Messi as the kid Tchouameni did.
joe1822play
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we knew it, whites never grow un their heads
wuadikoz
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They’re lunatics, they think the World Cup is their property