Angry gamblers made up 48% of the 12,000 social media posts deemed offensive towards tennis players this year, according to an artificial intelligence-based detection system.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF), Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), All England Tennis Club (AELTC), and United States Tennis Association (USTA) joined forces at the end of last year to launch a program to monitor X posts. , Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube.
From January to October this year, the ‘Threat Matrix’ service monitored 2.47 million posts.
About 12,000 posts and comments violated the social media platform’s community guidelines.
This has been referred to the social media platform to remove the abuse, and in serious cases the entire account has been removed.
The abuse of 15 accounts violated criminal standards and was referred to national law enforcement for action.
Former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka, a long-time member of the WTA Players’ Council, said she was pleased the system would help “create a healthier online environment.”
“It was essential that the WTA and these partner organizations take meaningful action to filter, block and report hateful and harmful comments,” the 35-year-old Belarusian said.
“No one should have to endure the hate that so many of us have faced through these platforms.”
