ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The identities of 15 “extremely abusive account authors” had been reported to nationwide regulation enforcement and about 12,000 posts or feedback had 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 had 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.
The commonest kinds of abuse had been sexist remarks or sexually inappropriate content material, and almost half of the web abuse got here from what had 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 had been monitored by a mixture of synthetic intelligence and other people.
The French tennis federation started an analogous effort through the French Open in 2023.
