Facebook has agreed to help the AFL identify "trolls'' who vilify players and spout racist or bigoted comments on their platform following discussions between the tech giant and the AFL.

In a meeting last week between AFL officials and Facebook staff that followed the trolling of Carlton's AFLW star Tayla Harris, representatives of the global internet giant said the company would try to identify trolls from information passed on by the AFL through the league's Facebook interactions.

The meeting was addressing how the AFL and Facebook could better collaborate to remove racist, misogynist and other abusive material from their shared spaces on the internet - an issue that has flared further with the racist comments directed at West Coast's Liam Ryan by a Richmond fan whose membership was revoked on Tuesday.

The AFL's head of growth digital and audience, Darren Birch, said the AFL had asked Facebook whether the company could help identify offensive posters if the league passed on their own data relating to Facebook - such as IP addresses and alike.

Birch, who attended the meeting late last week, said the AFL had asked Facebook: "If we give you this data, will you help identify them?,'' Birch said. "They said 'absolutely, we'll help you with that.'''