UK Sports Teams Boycott Social Media

Professional sports teams in the United Kingdom have stopped posting on social media in a bid to raise awareness of online abuse. 

Soccer clubs including Birmingham City, Swansea City, and Rangers are taking part in a week-long boycott of all their social media platforms. 

Swansea led the way, with the club's official social media accounts falling silent at 17:00 on April 8. The club's boycott has been supported and echoed by its staff and by the men and women who make up its teams. 

With Swansea City's silence, captain of the first men's team, Matt Grimes, said that the club hoped to encourage the operators of social media companies to take action against the discrimination and abuse taking place on their platforms. 

"We wanted to take this stance as we again call on those at the forefront of social media companies to implement the change that is needed now and in the future," said Grimes.

Shortly after Swansea went dark on social media, soccer club Birmingham City posted that they stood "in solidarity with Swansea in the fight against abuse and discrimination of all forms across social media."

Rangers, whose midfielder Glen Kamara and strikers Alfredo Morelos and Kemar ..

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