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The Word Cup has suffered a ‘significant increase’ in the most serious examples of racist abuse online, Fifa’s social media protection service (SMPS) has found.<\/b><\/p>\n

A total of 89,000 abusive posts were identified across the group stage of the 2026 tournament.<\/p>\n

It marks a 13-fold increase compared to 2022 when 6,700 abusive comments were identified, although 48 matches were played in Qatar rather than 72.<\/p>\n

Racism represented 11% of all online abuse. <\/p>\n

The SMPS said this was a 3% rise on four years ago, and added there was a significant increase in the objectively worst, most offensive material.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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More than 100 examples passed the legal thresholds for preparing case files to enforce action.<\/p>\n

While detection methods have improved, the SMPS said the “data trends show a concerning direction of travel in terms of racially aggravated abuse”.<\/p>\n

The Netherlands players who missed penalties in the last-32 shootout defeat to Morocco on Monday all suffered racist abuse.<\/p>\n

Justin Kluivert, Quinten Timber and Crysencio Summerville were subjected to discriminatory, racist and hateful comments on social media, said the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB).<\/p>\n

More than six million posts and comments were scanned – an increase of 33% – with 225,000 identified for human review.<\/p>\n

Around 1,000 accounts were identified for further investigation and 181,000 hateful comments hidden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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