Wimbledon is monitoring social media to try to protect players from cyberbullying WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

LONDON — (AP) — The All England Club is monitoring social media to try to help protect players at Wimbledon from cyberbullying for the first time this year.

“This is not something you’ll see in the public domain at all. You won’t see us shout about it. But effectively, we are scrolling social media for any of this type of content, and it means that we can get information that we haven’t had in the past. We’re not just relying on what the player might be saying has happened to them,” tournament director Jamie Baker said Friday. “Also, if there is something that is of concern, that’s when our security (team) … can help do something about it.”

Baker said the new initiative is similar to what the French Tennis Federation did during the French Open last year, when it began paying a company to provide players with software that uses artificial intelligence …