The organisers of the World Cup successful Qatar are paying groups of fans to question to the tournament, saying they are asking them for affirmative comments connected societal media successful return.
The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) confirmed the argumentation of inviting groups of supporters to the finals arsenic guests aft reports by Dutch nationalist broadcaster NOS, who said connected Sunday that Qatar was paying for flights and hotels for a radical of 50 Dutch fans.
In instrumentality these supporters person had to motion a "code of conduct", urging them to station favourable comments astir the tourney connected societal media and to study "any offensive, degrading oregon abusive comments" by others to the SC, preferably with screenshots.
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The broadcaster cited 2 Dutch fans who said they had been selected by the tournament's organisers arsenic "Fan Leaders", and who added that they had been asked to prime a radical of 50 loyal supporters for the escaped travel to Qatar.
"As the tourney nears, we person invited our astir progressive instrumentality leaders to personally nominate a tiny enactment of fans to articulation america arsenic our guests, arsenic a mode of thanking them for their collaboration," a spokesperson for the SC told Reuters.
On its website, the Qatar World Cup describes its Fan Leaders programme arsenic a web of astir 400 fans and influencers from 60 countries who person offered "insights, research, contented instauration and connection amplification," for the tournament.
The organisers did not accidental however galore fans they had invited, oregon supply immoderate fiscal details.
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In its codification of conduct, the SC asks the Fan Leaders to hold to incorporated its contented successful their societal media posts and to enactment the World Cup by liking and re-sharing posts by 3rd parties astir the tournament.
It besides stated that fans are not expected to beryllium a "mouthpiece" for Qatar, but added it "would evidently not beryllium due to disparage Qatar, the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy oregon the FIFA World Cup".
Belgian and French media person besides reported that selected groups of fans from these countries were offered a escaped travel to the World Cup by Qatar.
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