FIFA Flags 7M 'Potentially Harmful' Posts During World Cup
- FIFA's Social Media Protection Service detected and removed over 7 million potentially harmful posts during the 2026 World Cup, a rate 14 times higher than in 2022.
- The SMPS reviewed more than 500,000 AI-flagged messages targeting players, coaches, and officials, reporting over 1,000 serious threats to authorities.
- Racial abuse made up more than 11% of detected offensive messages in the tournament's early stages, according to FIFA.
- Brazil's National Human Rights Council urged FIFA and the UN to act on racism after citing widespread racial slurs against players during the World Cup.
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op-online.deDuring the World Cup there was an enormous increase in insults. FIFA has therefore deleted millions of comments.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Bae Jin-nam = Malicious posts targeting participating teams, etc. on social media during the 2026 FIFA World Cup...
FIFA said the rate of detection of such posts was 14 times higher than during the 2022 World Cup, during which 470,000 such posts were removed.
The International Federation of Football (FIFA) announced on Saturday that its social media protection service, aimed at protecting players, teams and officials from online threats and abuses, monitored over 7 million publications that could potentially contain harmful or abusive content on social media platforms during the World Cup.
The National Council for Human Rights (CNDH) announced that it had activated the United Nations (UN) and FIFA formally to denounce episodes of racism, racial discrimination and hate speech recorded during the 2026 World Cup. According to the folder, more than six million publications were analyzed, of which about 89,000 contained abusive content, of which 11% were racial in nature.
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