{"id":23437,"date":"2026-06-08T17:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/ofcom-warns-social-media-firms-over-online-abuse-during-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:37:35","slug":"ofcom-warns-social-media-firms-over-online-abuse-during-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/ofcom-warns-social-media-firms-over-online-abuse-during-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom warns social media firms over online abuse during World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Regulator will monitor measures taken by companies<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\u2018Spikes have often targeted Black and minority ethnic players\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ofcom has written to social media companies to remind them of their responsibilities regarding online abuse and said it will monitor measures taken against \u201cillegal hate content\u201d during the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>After the experience of England players during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/13\/tech-chiefs-called-in-to-no-10-over-racist-posts-to-black-england-players\">the men\u2019s 2021 European Championship<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/jul\/20\/england-lionesses-condemn-racist-online-abuse-jess-carter-euro-2025\">women\u2019s Euros<\/a> last year, Ofcom has urged online platforms to make sure they have effective mitigations against abuse in place and that they are \u201cadequately prepared for increased occurrence during the World Cup\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/08\/ofcom-social-media-online-abuse-world-cup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1b6b954c1cb02fd5704954d98918ffbeac1a061c\/309_0_3858_3086\/master\/3858.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=af401c2470984842da44651addfa68d8\" title=\"Ofcom warns social media firms over online abuse during World Cup\" \/>Regulator will monitor measures taken by companies<br \/>\n\u2018Spikes have often targeted Black and minority ethnic players\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Ofcom has written to social media companies to remind them of their responsibilities regarding online abuse and said it will monitor measures taken against \u201cillegal hate content\u201d during the World Cup.<br \/>\nAfter the experience of England players during the men\u2019s 2021 European Championship and the women\u2019s Euros last year, Ofcom has urged online platforms to make sure they have effective mitigations against abuse in place and that they are \u201cadequately prepared for increased occurrence during the World Cup\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regulator will monitor measures taken by companies \u2018Spikes have often targeted Black and minority ethnic players\u2019 Ofcom has written to social media companies to remind them of their responsibilities regarding online abuse and said it will monitor measures taken against \u201cillegal hate content\u201d during the World Cup. After the experience of England players during the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/ofcom-warns-social-media-firms-over-online-abuse-during-world-cup\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ofcom warns social media firms over online abuse during World Cup<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}