Sir Andy Murray: British Wimbledon tennis legend says social media is damaging as he backs Katie Boulter

“Athletes in all sports have been discussing this for a long time, but it really hasn’t changed. I hope something can be done soon.”

For his opinion, he was asked about what could be done to eliminate the toxic abuse as a former player and four fathers, Murray said: “If I am honest. I and my wife are trying to keep our children away from social media until they are much bigger, because I think it can be quite damaging.”

The eldest child of Murray is nine, the smallest four. Many social media applications have minimum 13 years of age for users.

Technology companies will have to do more to protect young people from harmful content within the scope of the government’s online security law. It is introduced in phases and social media platforms are now obliged to protect users from illegal or harmful content, while more child safety measures are introduced next month.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, BBC’ye the government on social media platforms, more protective measures can be applied, he said.

The figures provided by the Data Science firm show that 8,000 abusive, severe or threatening messages have been sent to 458 tennis players through social media accounts in 2024, in 2024.

Following the comments of Boulter, other tennis players asked for more action, including calls to bring authentication.

Many of the UK Women’s Football Team plans to give up social media for their defense of the upcoming European Championship in Switzerland.

Murray said: “I don’t know who responsible, I don’t know if the government needs to do more to deal with it, or [X owner] Elon Musk and people like the other can do more to stop these messages from reaching individuals.

“I just don’t mean athletes, but then you get into all the controversy about free speech, and it’s hard.”

Murray also said that the athletes can help them by trying to “look at comments and go to our phones immediately after the matches”, but they are not on them to solve the problem.

Former 35 -year -old British tennis player Naomi Broady said that BBC Radio 5 live on social media experiences on social media: “I saw the worst of Trolling and I don’t show their faces after my children.”