FIFA president Gianni Infantino FIFA, the governing body of world football, has issued a report revealing the vast number of social media abuse it has directly reported to the various platforms since the beginning of 2025. More than 300,000 abusive posts have reported by FIFA, with 11 alleged offenders turned in to local law enforcement in seven countries and one person reported to Interpol.
Former footballer Joey Barton has been found guilty of six counts of sending "grossly offensive" social media posts directed at broadcaster Jeremy Vine and television pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko. Barton, 43, compared Aluko and Ward to the serial killer couple Fred and Rose West, and called Vine a "bike nonce" in posts sent between January and March 2024.