Last week, English football clubs and leag𒐪ues announced they would be taking part in a social media blackout in a bid to raise awareness about racist abuse and discrimination online.

Other sports organisations such as England’s cricket board and Premiershꦺip Rugby will also take part in the boycott.

The s🐭ocial media blackout is set to take place from this Friday afternoon to Monday, May 3꧙ at 23:59 BST.

In recent years, Hamilton has been centralꦫ to F1’s push for raising more awareness against racism and discrimination.

Earlier today, Mercedes announced its new partnershi𒁏p with the Associa🌳tion for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers UK - established to promote engineering in schools and increase diversity.

Speaking ahead of this weekend’s 🅷Portuguese Grand Prix, Hamilton expressed his support of the boycott of so♑cial media by football and the wider supporting community.

“I haven’t anything planned but I think it’s clear that racism continues to be an issue,” Hamilton said. “I think soci💎al 🐻media platforms do need to do more in order to comeback this. I’m fully supportive of the initiative.

❀“If me also doing it helps put pressure on those platforms to help ✃fight against it, then for sure, I’m happy to do so.”

Hamilton♍ spoke about his experiences on♍ social media and questioned why F1 is not involved in the boycott.

“I was subject to abuওse a long, long time ago, at a time when I was younger, I was reading social media, like many people do, trying to engage with people,” Hamilton added.

“There was a period of time I had to understand, you can’t read every comment that’s on there, and you can’t take it personally. I🌳f you let those things get to you, they can ruin your day. I took a period of time where I stepped back from it and generally don’🐲t go searching for that stuff, for validation.

“I don’t think I need validation, I know I’ve got amazing support from many fans that follow me and I’m super grateful for the support I do get. I do believe that social media companies need to do more. There’s algo🌠rithms, they’re able to take steps inꦫ helping create a more anti-racist society.

“That’s what we’ve got to be pushing towards. I’m really proud to hear, I don’t know all the details, but I’m glad to hear there are so many organisations getting involved. I’m not sure why F1 is not a part of that. But I heard people like Sky are for example. As I said, I think I probably will fo♓llow and support this weekend.”