Stoke City's Rabbi Matondo has shared racist abuse received on Instagram and criticised the social media platform for its response to last weekend's boycott.
Matondo, who is on loan at the Championship club from Schalke in the Bundesliga, shared screenshots on Twitter of private messages from two different Instagram users on Tuesday, adding: "Good to see the boycott changed nothing @Instagram".
Sky Sports joined the wider sporting community in taking part in a four-day social media boycott to tackle online abuse and discrimination - which ended at midnight on Monday - and did not post any sports content to its channels on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok for the duration of the boycott period.
Facebook, which owns Instagram, have removed the accounts which sent the abuse to Matondo and told Sky Sports News they are set to release "new tools to help prevent people seeing abusive messages from strangers."
A spokesperson for Facebook said: "The abuse sent to Rabbi Matondo is unacceptable. We do not want it on Instagram and we quickly removed the accounts that sent it.
"We recently announced that we'll take tougher action against people breaking our rules in DMs and later this week, we're rolling out new tools to help prevent people seeing abusive messages from strangers.
"No single thing will fix this challenge overnight but we're committed to doing what we can to keep our community safe from abuse."
Matondo, 20, was previously targeted with racist abuse, along with Welsh international team-mate Ben Cabango, following Wales' win over Mexico in March this year. Police in Cardiff opened an investigation into the origin of the abuse.
After sharing screenshots of those previous messages, Matondo added: "And it continues... another week of @instagram doing absolutely nothing about racial abuse.
"My insta will get taken down if I post any clips from my games though... #priorities."
In response to the racist abuse of Matondo and Cabango in March, a spokesperson for Facebook told Sky Sports News: "We don't want racist abuse on Instagram and have removed the accounts that sent these messages to Ben Cabango and Rabbi Matondo this weekend.
"We have built tools that mean public figures don't ever have to receive DMs (direct messages) from people they don't follow and we recently announced that we'll take tougher action when we become aware of people breaking our rules in DMs.
"This work is ongoing and we are committed to doing more. We also know these problems are bigger than us, so are working with the industry, government and others to collectively drive societal change through action and education."
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