
Nippon Professional Baseball (hereinafter NPB) introduced a system on July 1 that continuously monitors social media posts, in order to strengthen its response to illegal or improper posts targeting umpires, including defamation and slander, threats, and damage to reputation. When malicious posts are identified, measures such as reporting them to SNS operators, blocking accounts, and deleting posts will be taken. Post from NPB’s official X account NPB rega