Exploring the Link Between Gambling, Social Media Abuse, and Athletes
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Summary
The article discusses the relationship between gambling, social media abuse, and athletes, focusing on tennis player Katie Boulter's experience with online abuse related to gambling. Signify's artificial intelligence-led system, Threat Matrix, has been detecting abuse sent to tennis players, often originating from disgruntled gamblers who have lost bets.
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"A significant proportion of abuse sent to tennis players stems from gamblers who have lost bets."
BBC Sport looks at what is going on with the relationship between gambling, tennis, women in sport and online abuse.
