Qatar 2022: Meta and FIFA join forces to prevent online harassment at the World Cup

Goal he put on his shirt and revealed that he was working, along with FIFA, in improving its policies to protect players and fans from online harassment. The company led by Mark Zuckerberg was criticized last year for failing to protect the black players of the England team at Euro 2021. Racist comments towards the athletes were made on Instagram and Facebook.

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Through a statement, the company announced that they use technology to search for content that may threaten the integrity of the personsuch as violent threats, harassment and hate speech. “When our technology thinks that a piece of content may be in violation, it will take action, either by sending it to our teams for review or, if it’s really sure, automatically removing it.”he added.

Talking about instagram, users will have the option to turn off direct message requests. In this way they will not receive messages from people they do not follow.

In addition to turning off comments completely on each post, they will also be able to hide words thanks to the feature ‘Hidden Words’.

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By having the function activated, the message requests and offensive responses that the user may receive in their stories will be sent to a hidden folder to protect it. “We are testing turning it on by default for people with creator accounts, which includes many footballers who play in the World Cup”, pick up the post.

In addition, they reinforced the use of ‘Limits’a function that, when activated, hides comments and requests for messages from people who do not follow the user.

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Meta stressed that it is useful for public persons “who experience sudden spikes in comments and direct messages (after a football match, for example)”. If the user is in a flood of comments or requests for messages, the company will ask you to activate the function.

In this way, the company led by Zuckerberg, claimed to be teaching the operation of these security tools to football players, teams and associations.

Source: Elcomercio

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