United will join the rest of English football for a social media boycott from today at 15:00 BST to 23:59 BST on Monday 3 May, in response to the ongoing and sustained discriminatory abuse received online by players and many others connected to football.
For the boycott, the club and Manchester United Foundation will switch off all official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts across the world. Manchester United has conducted its own in-depth review into the issue to analyse the level of abuse which players are subjected to across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. The review looked at online activity from September 2019 to February 2021 and checked for abusive words being used against players’ names or account handles and covered racist, homophobic and abusive comments.