‘A really ugly playing field’: How tech is tackling online trolling of athletes | carawaters
Simone Biles’ shock exit from the gymnastics teams event at the Olympics last week led to the five-time Olympic medallist being both praised and pilloried on social media for prioritising her mental health.
The research found women were much more likely to receive misogynistic abuse that was sexualised and violent. “It’s not all out there in the open,” Inman Grant says. “In fact, a lot of the abuse goes directly to the players’ [direct messages] on Instagram and other places.”“If you identify as LGBTQI, or you have a disability, you’re also three times as likely to be targeted with online harassment,” she says.
Tim Clark, chief digital officer at NASCAR, says athletes and social media managers at the sporting body saw an immediate decrease in the volume of abusive messages they had to deal with. A spokesman for the Australian Olympics Commission says Australian athletes had not reported online trolling at the Tokyo Games. “We do issue athletes with advice about their use of social media and each team is briefed when they arrive in the village,” the spokseman says.
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