2023-12-11 20:46:10
One in five players participating in the Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023 received discriminatory, offensive or threatening messages on social networks during the course of the competition, according to a report published by the FIFA and the international football players union FIFPRO.
According to FIFA, it protected 697 footballers and coaches who actively used 2.111 accounts in Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X y YouTube.
The analysis details that 1 in 5 female players (152) received character-specific messages discriminatory, offensive or threatening and that the insults homophobic, sexual and sexist represented almost a 50% of the offensive messages that were detected.
He also states that the players had a 29% more likely to be subjected to online insults compared to footballers who played in the Qatar World Cup 2022.
The service SMPS uses AI to protect participants from online insults, keeping their social networks free of hate and allowing them to focus on their sporting performance.
The president of FIFA, Gianni Infantinoassured that “There can be no place on social media for those who abuse or threaten anyone, whether in FIFA tournaments or in any other situation.“.
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FIFA recalled that its campaign “Nondiscrimination“is carried out in collaboration with the office of UN Human Rights.
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