Amid Elon Musk’s Twitter Fiasco, Lewis Hamilton Urges His 7.8 Million Social Media Fans To Take Strong Measures

A world-class driver, a champion athlete, and an amazing role model for future generations, Lewis Hamilton is one-of-a-kind. The Mercedes driver has time and again supported various important social causes and educated people about the same. Now, he has joined hands with his rivals as they take a stand against another important issue haunting F1 recently.

After enduring a difficult season with Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton finally looks like he’s back to his best. He’s finished P2 in successive races in Austin and Mexico and will be looking to stand on the top podium spot in Brazil.

More importantly, the former McLaren driver agreed with arch-nemesis Max Verstappen and urged his 7.8M Twitter followers to get off the social media platform. Lewis Hamilton said, “Yeah, I think social media is getting more and more toxic as the years go on. I think we should all probably get off it.”

He further added, “Mental health is such a prominent thing right now. I know so many people reading their comments and the stuff that people say and it is hurtful. Fortunately, I don’t read that stuff but the media platforms definitely need to do more to protect people, particularly young kids and women.”

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Hamilton, who himself has 7.8m followers on Twitter, predicts the online trolls and abuse to continue as the new Twitter owner Elon Musk continues a feud of his own. Furthermore, he predicts that these social media platforms aren’t doing enough to protect their users from online hate.

Sergio Perez joins Lewis Hamilton and calls the social media world toxic

Red Bull driver Sergio Perez agreed with 7-time champion Lewis Hamilton as he called out the toxicity of social media. The Mexican also urged the people in F1 to be responsible while posting a message on the internet. Furthermore, Perez condemned the online abuse and felt it was wrong to insult a public figure, just because they can.

Perez said, “Obviously, as a sport, we need to also be responsible of what we post, by ourselves. We all have a lot of followers so it’s very important that we try to get the sport in the right way.”

He further added, “Formula 1, it’s a great sport and has great values, but has to do more in that regard. And just in general, the social media world is getting far too toxic.”

Not only Checo but Lewis’ rival, Max Verstappen, also called out internet trolls by saying, “It’s not great that they are allowed to write these kinds of things so I hope we can come up with a kind of algorithm that stops people from being keyboard warriors”

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After struggling so much due to Covid-19, the world can surely use people’s kindness. The toxic nature on the online platforms has been significantly increasing due to which drivers like Lewis and Max have constantly avoided using social media platforms. Do you think their approach is the correct one?