FIFA provides law enforcement agencies with information on SNS accounts that slandered players at the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar tournament
FIFA and the International Professional Footballers' Association, FIFPRO, have released a report on SNS protection measures taken at the 2022 FIFA World Cup held in Qatar from November to December 2022. The survey covered 864 players and coaches from 32 teams, 129 staff members, and 45 former players and media, and found that more than 300 players were subject to slander. FIFA has identified accounts with particularly egregious postings and is providing information to law enforcement.
SOCIAL MEDIA PROTECTION SERVICE - FIFA WORLD CUP QATAR 2022TM TOURNAMENT ANALYSIS
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864 players and coaches (1688 active SNS accounts), 129 employees (31 accounts), 32 teams (126 accounts), former players and media were subject to protective monitoring. 45 (Number of accounts: 76). The platforms are Instagram at 43%, Twitter at 26%, Facebook at 24%, TikTok at 6% and YouTube at 1%.
According to the investigation, more than 300 players were the target of defamation. In particular, some high-profile players were subject to the majority of harassment targeting football as a whole.
The contents of the slander were abusive 26.24%, sexual content 17.09%, sexism 13.47%, homophobia 12.16%, and racism 10.7%.
As the tournament progressed, slander about athletes' families increased, and there were cases where athletes who returned to their home countries were threatened and assaulted. At the end of the tournament, there were conspicuous slanderous attacks on individual performances and mistakes in play.
The number of slanderous slander is by far the largest on Twitter, and Twitter seems to have deleted 23% of the posts after receiving a report from FIFA. In this process, FIFA notes that Twitter did not take immediate action, and the content escalated, leading to a higher deletion rate.
Meta, which operates Instagram and Facebook, said that when they first reported it, many of them responded automatically that ``the review team has not been able to review your report because a large number of reports have arrived.''
In addition, more than 20 million messages posted on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube were investigated, and posts containing offensive posts or words that could be used for attacks43. Mechanically extracted 3,696 cases. After double-checking by experts to eliminate false positives, 19,636 posts were finally confirmed as malicious, discriminatory, or threatening and reported to the platform. Over 280,000 messages were removed by each platform's moderation tools before the players saw them.
Identified the location information of 7204 out of 12,618 accounts that made malicious posts. The regional distribution was 38% in Europe, 36% in South America, 10% in Asia, and 8% each in North America and Africa.
Following the results, FIFA President Gianni Infantino said, ``Discrimination is a criminal act. I was.
FIFA and FIFPRO will use the expanded system at the FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in July 2023.
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