Australia's A-Leagues and players’ union Professional Footballers Australia are taking their own steps against online abuse by filtering player's social media proactively.
The software's claimed to be able to scan words, phrases, symbols, images and even emojis, and check them against previously-observed content. It will be rolled out across the leagues', clubs' and players' accounts in the A-League Men and Women, preventing the person running the account, and their followers, from seeing harmful comments.
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