Case Study

How Sport New Zealand Improved Abuse Detection at the Women’s Rugby World Cup by 53% with Areto

 53%

improvement in abuse detection on IG

  20%

improvement in abuse detection overall

     Days!     

saved from manual tracking and analysis

SNAPSHOT:

Sport NZ sought to understand online abuse faced by women athletes during the Rugby World Cup 2021 (played in 2022), considering the added challenges of gender-specific abuse, language barriers, and limited detection capabilities.

With Areto’s multi-language detector and proprietary language model for gender microaggressions, Sport NZ improved abuse detection by 53% on IG and 20% overall, including transphobia and body shaming. This better positioned them to make data-driven decisions.

FEATURES:

Spam Deleter

Abuse Hider

Auto-Responder

Multi-Language Detector

Regional Lingo Filter

Microaggression Monitor

Mentions Manager

PLATFORMS:

Instagram

Facebook

Twitter

YouTube

During the Rugby World Cup 2021 (played in 2022), Sport New Zealand sought to understand online abuse faced by women athletes playing in the tournament. However...

Gender and language barriers

Abuse towards women athletes includes subtle layers of identity-based attacks.

Women athletes face misogyny & sexism

Hard to identify abuse with no profanity

Fans were getting annoyed by crypto and porn scams each time the Devils posted.

Manual abuse detection in other languages (for teams from France, Italy, Japan) is complex.

Analysis in 4 languages takes time

Real-time monitoring with MAMO

Areto put MAMO (its proprietary large language model for detecting gender microaggressions) into action, specifically designed to pick up subtle but harmful abuse towards any gender. Areto tracked in English, French, Italian and Japanese to improve overall abuse detection across Instagram and Twitter.

53% more abuse detected on IG!

On Instagram alone, MAMO increased abuse detection by an astounding 53%. This included body shaming and transphobia, which usually go under the radar with most language models. With Areto, Sport NZ caught 20% more abuse overall and 11% more abuse on Twitter, better positioning them to make data-driven decisions.

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