Ronaldo is the most insulting to the English Premier League player
According to Ofcom, about 68% of Premier League players experienced harassment on Twitter in the first half of last season.
Cristiano Ronaldo in a friendly match against Rayo Vallecano on July 31.
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In England, a joint report between Ofcom (the UK’s telecoms regulator) and the Alan Turing Institute showed that Cristiano Ronaldo was the Premier League player who was most insulted on Twitter during the period from August 2021 to January 2022. The poll, which was published also identified This week, eight Manchester United players are in the top ten in this unenviable rating.
Returning in the summer of 2021 to ManU, the club in which he played from 2003 to 2009, the 37-year-old Portuguese received 12,520 offensive tweets during the studied period, out of a total of 576,915 messages mentioning his name (2, 2%). It is noteworthy that Cristiano Ronaldo is mentioned in 90% of all messages directed to Premier League players and in 97% of abusive tweets. The volume is largely explained by the attacker’s 98.4 million subscribers.
In second place in the ranking is Harry Maguire. The Red Devils captain received fewer offensive messages than the Portuguese (8954), but in total the proportion of these tweets is greater than that of the Portuguese (14.90%). The England international was targeted on 7 November with a series of messages using degrading language after he apologized in the wake of the (2-0) defeat in the Manconian derby against City.
In all, about 68% of Premier League players experienced harassment on Twitter in the first half of last season, according to Ofcom. The study revealed that 418 of the 618 players analyzed received at least one offensive tweet, 8% of which involved discrimination related to characteristics such as race or gender. The UK regulator found that nearly 60,000 tweets out of the more than 2.3 million tweets sent to Premier League players in the first five months of the season were abusive.
“These results show the dark side of football. Insults on networks have no place in sports or in society. Even if our results show that the vast majority of supporters are behaving responsibly, the administrators of these sites must do more to stop this scourge and allow players to pursue their profession without subjected to violent insults” in Ofcom.
For its part, Twitter said that it has deleted more than 38,000 abusive tweets. A spokesperson for the social network told the British Palestinian Authority News Agency that they are “committed” to combating abuse and do not tolerate harassment based on race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, gender identity or sexual orientation.
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