2021-08-13
Nearly everyone in soccer has seen or cited the player valuations on the website Transfermarkt. Not everyone knows where they come from. @RorySmith pulls back the curtain. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
How soccer industry database Transfermarkt arrives at its highly influential player valuations, even as its data is crowdsourced from volunteers and staff
Soccer takes the player valuations posted on the website Transfermarkt extremely seriously. It has never really stopped to ask where they come from. Tweets: @footballcliches , @sc...
2021-08-11
“Ultimately the onus is on them to go into Instagram and input which emojis/words they don't want to feature,” one executive told employees. Troubling reporting by @RMac18 and @tariqpanja on how FB says it's on players, not company, to police online abuse. https://www.google.com/...
Engadget
Instagram introduces anti-hate speech tools to let users limit comments and requests on popular posts, following abuse towards England soccer players
Instagram has introduced new features called Limits and Hidden Words designed to reduce hate and abuse on trending posts, the company — announced.
“... By February, the list had grown to about 20 different news clips in a single month.” Racist abuse of Black players is well known to social media giants like Facebook and Twitter. But they say it's up to the players (!!) to hide it. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Engadget
Instagram introduces anti-hate speech tools to let users limit comments and requests on popular posts, following abuse towards England soccer players
Instagram has introduced new features called Limits and Hidden Words designed to reduce hate and abuse on trending posts, the company — announced.