User Safety First: Meta Plans to Prevent World Cup Abuse

The world’s most popular sporting event, the FIFA World Cup, is just around the corner. With it comes the usual influx of fans from all over the world, eager to support their teams. But the World Cup also brings a more unsavory side – an increase in abuse, violence, and racism incidents.

Meta is warning individuals who use its social media platforms that abusive behavior will not be accepted. To make sure that people better be aware: it is attempting to avoid potential abuse by describing the tools it has in place to protect users from breaches in its apps.

Our past is full of incidents where many players from different countries were targeted through Instagram and Facebook for not performing well. It all started after the event when England was defeated in the Euro 2020 final match.

In light of the recent World Cup, Meta has taken extra measures to protect users from abuse. As we know, big events often lead to an increase in hate speech and harassment. To keep our community safe, meta has put in place several policies and procedures with some tools specifically for the World Cup that will help in user protection and saving their DMs from the worst.

Meta Clearly Said that they prohibit bullying, risks of violence, and hateful speech; therefore, we do not want them in our applications. We use technology to proactively look for information that might violate our standards in addition to responding to concerns by our users not including your private conversations.

During April and June of this year, Meta's applications erased more than 17 million cases of offensive speech, more than 90 percent of the total majority of which were quickly removed without anyone noticing it. They communicated through results to show they work on what they said.

In light of this, the social media platform Meta has introduced certain tools to help prevent abuse and keep users safe during the World Cup on Instagram. The company will be working with several organizations, to monitor abusive content and stop it from being shared.

Meta has designed Instagram security and control features. This feature can entirely disable DM requests and limit who can and cannot comment on your posts. There is one more amazing IG tool known as Hidden Words, which will help you hide what is harsh to you in the form of profane words and phrases. It will support you to stay away from toxicity. Research-based on IG's hidden word feature shocked us with up to 10,000 followers enabled it when it was first launched by Meta.


In addition, Meta worked on the Limits tool, which strips away responses and private message requests from followers who are new or inactive. Insta also offers a comment-detecting feature that alerts individuals when they attempt to publish a comment that might be abusive.

Meta knows that the World Cup is a time when people from all over the world come together to celebrate their love of the game. They want to make sure that everyone can enjoy the event without fear of abuse. By taking these measures, Meta hopes to make the World Cup a safe and enjoyable experience for all its users.

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