The girlfriend of the footballer Jack Grealish has said she was receiving 200 online death threats a day while he played for England during the European Championships. Sasha Attwood, 25, put more pressure on social media firms to do more to stamp out abuse as she revealed facing a barrage of abuse from girls as young as 13 after their relationship became public. SponsoredAttwood said: “It blows my mind how nasty people can be for no reason.” Speaking on her YouTube channel, she said the “level of abuse” she has faced over the past few months shows how social media is “so toxic”. The model added that she thought it was “really sad that these generations have grown up thinking it’s OK to say things

Source: The Times August 03, 2021 11:01 UTC