trying to support families locally with that. in the last hour england footballer bukayo saka has released a statement addressing the racist abuse he received on his social media accounts following his penalty miss in the euro 2020 final. it comes as instagram admitted a mistake in its technology meant racist comments and emojis were not removed. instagram boss adam mosseri said content had mistakenly been identified as within guidelines instead of being referred to human moderators. in his statement saka wrote, to the social media platforms instagram, twitter and facebook, i don t want any child or adult to have to receive the hateful
to play and i think it is important we use our platforms to help in anyway we can. the people that do not have the voice, they are who we are standing up for. in the last few minutes, tadej pogacar has won stage 18 at the tour de france to tighten his grip on the yellow jersey with three stages to go. today was the last mountainous stage in the pyrenees, and it came down to a race to the line between the top three in the overall standings. just like yesterday, pogacar beatjonas vingegaard and richard carapaz who remain second and third. the defending champion has extended his lead to 5 minutes and a5 seconds. we ll have more for you in sportsday at half past six. let s get more now on that statement from bukayo saka he endured a torrent of racist abuse after the england football team were beaten in the final of the euro 2020 tournament. i can now speak to our technology reporter cristina criddle. instagram has admitted a fault in its technology that allows some of this abuse to get
instagram as i had some users reporting to be that they were still finding this automated message coming back to them. i m still waiting for a response from instagram on that. we waiting for a response from instagram on that.- waiting for a response from instagram on that. waiting for a response from instaaram on that. ~ ., , ., instagram on that. we will have you back as soon instagram on that. we will have you back as soon as instagram on that. we will have you back as soon as you instagram on that. we will have you back as soon as you get instagram on that. we will have you back as soon as you get a instagram on that. we will have you j back as soon as you get a response. let s return now to the prime minister s levelling up plan which he has laid out in a speech today. he says the plan is a win win for the whole of the uk and won t make rich areas poorer in order to benefit the most deprived. let s speak to the conservative mayor of the tees valley ben houchen. go
it can to take races abuse. i insistence that it works as hard as it can to take races abuse.- it can to take races abuse. i think that we know it can to take races abuse. i think that we know that it can to take races abuse. i think that we know that this it can to take races abuse. i think that we know that this has - it can to take races abuse. i think that we know that this has been i it can to take races abuse. i think. that we know that this has been an issue for a while. gracious but not racist abuse on social media is nothing new. 0ver racist abuse on social media is nothing new. over the years some liverpool players were complaining that they were receiving monkey emoji is on the instagram post was that we have to remember that instagram has more than1 billion users and the sheer amount of content on there is huge. that s a very hard thing to moderate. you can t do it with human moderators alone and they ll try to find a technological fix for this but they haven t found
this abuse to get through. tell us more about it. this abuse to get through. tell us more about it. i this abuse to get through. tell us more about it. i actually - this abuse to get through. tell usj more about it. i actually recorded some comments on bukayo saka instagram on monday. they were, orangutan i recorded them and received an instant notification saying the technology is found that these comments probably didn t ball it did not violate guidelines which ifound very strange. it did not violate guidelines which i found very strange. so it did not violate guidelines which ifound very strange. so i it did not violate guidelines which i found very strange. so i then went to the head of instagram and i said, look at these comments, why are they being found to not violate guidelines? probably not found to violate guidelines and he said that was a mistake with its technology, that the technology was marking these comments as benign. which meant that they were being followed up mea