ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The identities of 15 “extremely abusive account authors” have been reported to nationwide legislation enforcement and about 12,000 posts or feedback have been identified to social media platforms this yr as a part of a brand new try to guard tennis gamers and officers from cyberbullying.
The outcomes of the primary 10 months of this system have been introduced Thursday by the teams that launched it: the WTA ladies’s skilled tour, the Worldwide Tennis Federation and the organizations that run Wimbledon and the US Open.
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The most typical kinds of abuse have been sexist remarks or sexually inappropriate content material, and almost half of the net abuse got here from what have been described as “offended gamblers.”
Content material on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Fb and X is being tracked in 39 languages for harassment, abuse or threats. From January to October, almost 2.5 million posts have been monitored by a mix of synthetic intelligence and folks.
The French tennis federation started an analogous effort in the course of the French Open in 2023.
