Racist abuse derails Facebook campaign to foster child migrants

‘A social media campaign to recruit foster parents for child asylum seekers was derailed after it attracted racist abuse and extreme anti-immigrant comments.
The Facebook campaign, run by Leicestershire County Council in October and November, was ended abruptly because of bigoted trolling by members of the public, according to the Leicester Mercury.
A councilor at Leicestershire County Council told the newspaper it was shut down because of racist abuse.
“We had a campaign, a high profile social media campaign. It was asking if people would be prepared to foster some of these refugees,” Councilor Ivan Ould said.’
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