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mo4ch:>#Enough: Football stars announce 24-hour social media boycott in protest at online racial abuse | Mo4ch News

Some of football's biggest names, including David Beckham, Raheem Sterling, Marcus Rashford and Gareth Bale, have put their weight behind a new social media campaign aimed at highlighting online racial abuse.The temporary absence of some of the game's top stars from social media in a 24-hour 'boycott' was organized by the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), and comes in the wake of several incidents in recent European fixtures which saw players targeted by some supporters with racist chanting and rhetoric.Also on rt.com'Silence the haters (I mean racists)': Sterling calls for sanctions as Montenegro charged with abuseThis has also made its way to social media, with more and more instances of players being subjected to vile abuse due to their ethnicity. Several additional Premier League players, Tottenham's Danny Rose, Manchester United's Jesse Lingard and Arsenal's Hector Bellerin have also lent their weight to the campaign.Manchester U…