Nothing to LOL about as social media fail to crack down on racist emojis

A study of tweets sent to soccer players found more than 3,000 abusive messages, 29% of them of them emojis

15 July 2021 - 19:16 By Ivan Levingston

A wave of online racism aimed at some of England’s black soccer players has highlighted how social media companies’ content moderation systems are failing to monitor the use of emojis...

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