Facebook Adds New Features to Help Users Follow the Paralympic Games

The 2021 Paralympic Video games begins subsequent week (8/24), and forward of the principle occasion, Fb has introduced a brand new vary of instruments to assist customers take part within the Video games, and keep updated with the most recent outcomes and happenings.

First off, on Fb, customers will quickly be capable to entry a brand new Paralympics hub, which can present up-to-the-minute insights on the most recent outcomes, information, and highlights.

As you possibly can see in these instance screenshots, the brand new Paralympic hub will even embody athlete and workforce profiles and interactive components – like a Video games quiz to assist maximize engagement. The hub will even function associated posts out of your connections to be able to spotlight key conversations of curiosity.

Fb’s Paralympics Video games hub can be accessible from August twenty third, and can be accessible by tapping on the #Paralympics hashtag. 

Over on Instagram, the @Paralympics Instagram account is now internet hosting a brand new AR impact which permits customers to aim to reflect the actions of Someity, the official Paralympics mascot.

The Paralympics account has additionally shared a variety of content material that explains the foundations and historical past behind varied occasions.

Along with this, the @Wethe15 Instagram account can be now internet hosting a brand new AR impact which is designed to assist followers promote the “We the 15” motion. ‘We the 15’ goals to finish discrimination in opposition to individuals with disabilities, who make up 15% of the worldwide inhabitants.

Fb’s additionally internet hosting a variety of unique Paralympics content material, together with reside programming and highlights on the Paralympic Video games Fb Web page, unique, behind-the-scenes clips by way of Instagram Reels and a brand new WebXR “visible and spatial audio expertise which recreates phenomenal moments by Para athletes”.

And eventually, Fb’s additionally launched a brand new, four-part quick movie sequence, at the side of the IPC, which gives extra context on the spirit of the Paralympic Video games, and the way the occasion has facilitated constructive change for disabled communities around the globe. The movies additionally spotlight the position that Fb performs inside this shift.

As per Fb:

“In assist of #WeThe15, and available by way of the Paralympic Video games Fb Web page, the sequence highlights how Fb helps communities within the US, UK, Brazil and New Zealand come collectively on-line – and the real-world influence it has offline.”

The Paralympics is a crucial occasion, in each facilitating inclusion and offering alternative for all athletes to compete and showcase their abilities. As such, it is good to see Fb offering instruments to encourage participation and engagement, whereas additionally giving Paralympic athletes a method to keep up reference to their supporter communities.