England Lioness and Gotham FC defender Jess Carter said social media companies can do more to police hate comments online after she faced racial abuse during the Euro 2025 tournament.
Carter, a defender for the American soccer team Gotham FC, is part of the England women’s national team, nicknamed the “Lionesses,” that just secured a historic win in the Euro 2025 championships after defeating Spain on penalties in the final in Switzerland in July.
Carter had to take a step back from social media after facing intense racial abuse during the tournament and in an interview with CNBC’s Tania Bryer, she shared how she’s dealing with the online attacks.
“I’m not someone who normally takes myself off social media, because I’m used to the critics and used to getting some of the abuse that we get as athletes and people in the public eye, as it happens a lot,” Carter told Bryer.
“So this time around, I think the way that I dealt with it was just to completely take myself off social media so that I wasn’t able to see anything that was said and I could just focus on what was being said within my camp,” she added.
