Twitch streamers have come🐎 together to ask the platform to do better. The hashtag began circulating on Twitter with streamers sharing their horrible experiences 🦩of being targeted for harassment.
Most recently, female and minority streamers have been subjected to bot-fueled "hate raids," where a swarm of bots all invade a streamer's channel to start spamming the chat with hateful slurs or comments. You can see an example of this courtesy of Critical Bard, who .
There's a lot more going on, and has a pretty good write-up about the whole situation.
Twitch has since responded to the #DoBetterTwitch campaign and acknowledged that it "needs to do more" to combat hate and harassmꦓent.
"We’ve seen a lot of conversation about botting, hate raids, and other forms of harassment targeting marginalized creators," wrote Twitch in a series of tweets. “You’re asking us to do better, and w🌞e know we neಞed to do more to address these issues.”
Thanks to the campaign, Twitch was "able to identify a vulnerability in our proactive filters, and have rolled o🎃ut an update to 💫close this gap and better detect hate speech in chat."
Additionally, Twitch said that﷽ it will launch a "channel-level ban evasion detection and account verification improvements later this year," and it would be "reaching out to community members to learn about their experiences." In t♏he meantime, Twitch encourages streamers to share their experiences via its feedback system.
This isn't the first time Twitch has come under fire for allowing hate and harassment to run rampant on its platform. In 2020, Twitch's own analysis found it 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:took action on only 15% o🤡💖f user-generated reports--an appallingly low number given the sheer volume it receives annually. As such, the company announced it would be hiring an outside ♋law firm to investigateཧ these reports and work with local law enforcement.
