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Football authorities have called on social media companies and officials to take "the strongest action" after Tottenham Hotspur said forward Son Heung-min ...

“Today, more than 50% of violative content is surfaced by our automated systems, further reducing the burden on individuals to report abuse. [said](https://twitter.com/kickitout/status/1627604380806524929?s=20) in a statement: “The longer it takes social media companies to take action, or government to pass the online safety bill, the more players will be abused. “This has no place in our game and we fully support the authorities and social media companies to take the strongest possible action to tackle it.” [Ivan Toney](http://www.cnn.com/2023/02/13/football/brentford-ivan-toney-racial-abuse-spt-intl/index.html) was subjected to abuse on social media after scoring against Arsenal in the Premier League. [Football](https://cnn.com/sport/football) authorities have called on social media companies and officials to take “the strongest action” after Tottenham Hotspur said forward Son Heung-min was subjected to “reprehensible” [online abuse](https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/sport/online-abuse-of-footballers-and-basketball-players-spt-intl/index.html). [tweeted](https://twitter.com/FAspokesperson/status/1627423909317431296): “We strongly condemn the racist abuse aimed at Heung-Min Son this evening.

TOTTENHAM have called for social media firms to take action after Son Heung Min was subjected to racist abuse online at the weekend.

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The Tottenham forward received racist abuse online following Tottenham's derby clash with West Ham United and Kick It Out have had enough and demanded ...

A club statement added: “We stand with Sonny and once again call on the social media companies and authorities to take action.” The Football Association said: “We strongly condemn the racist abuse aimed at Son Heung-min. It happened just a week after Brentford forward Ivan Toney was targeted following their game against [Arsenal](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/arsenal-fc). Both have been targeted in the past. Now Kick It Out has demanded more to be done to ban vile comments being posted online and get quicker at removing offensive content. “This has no place in our game and we fully support the authorities and social media companies to take the strongest possible action to tackle it.”