Jamal Lowe, the former Swansea striker now with AFC Bournemouth, has opened up on the social media abuse he received last season and blasted the social media giants who choose not to censor the content.

Lowe was one of several Swansea players on the wrong end of vile abuse last season, abuse which led to the club leading the way in boycotting social media in a way that was followed by football – and wider sports – in general.

Despite those actions, which were rightly applauded at the time, we continue to see these instances of social media abuse and Lowe is clear in his view that there is much more that can be done and he questioned immediately why the companies were not doing much right now.

Speaking to theย On The Judyย podcast, Lowe said: “If I want to post something about coronavirus, I get a little thing that comes up saying: โ€˜this is false information, if you want real information go to the NHS websiteโ€™. Or if I want to post something with a song on it, they say you canโ€™t post it because I donโ€™t own the rights.

ย “So they can obviously censor content and theyโ€™re choosing not to.”

“The worst thing is it happened to four players, all different games, in the space of two months. Thereโ€™s no way to stop it unless weโ€™re verifying accounts.

“I came off Twitter man, itโ€™s too much. Iโ€™m just getting bare messages, good and bad. I donโ€™t really need to see both.

“One week Iโ€™m seeing: ‘youโ€™re the worst player Iโ€™ve ever seen in a Swansea shirt’. The next week: ‘oh my god, youโ€™re my favourite player, can I have your shirt’. I donโ€™t need these messages in my life.”

By Phil Sumbler

Been watching the Swans since the very late 1970s and running the Planet Swans website (in all its current and previous guises since the summer of 2001 As it stood JackArmy.net was right at the forefront of some of the activity against Tony Petty back in 2001, breaking many of the stories of the day as fans stood against the actions where the local media failed. Was involved with the Swans Supporters Trust from 2005, for the large part as Chairman before standing down in the summer of 2020.