For months now, Twitch streamers have had to deal with barrages of hate and harassment dominating their chats. Called “Hate Raids,” the harassment is usually targeted at specific individuals and ...

Update 09/29: Twitch announced a new phone verified chat tool. Allowing streamers and mods to require viewers to verify their account via a phone number or email address before they can interact in ...

Hate raids have become an increasingly disruptive problem on Twitch this year, pushing many of their targets off the platform entirely. Today Twitch announced that it has added new verification tools ...

One of the more unacceptable things to occur in regards to livestreaming on Twitch has been the absolute flood of racist and homophobic bot programs that have plagued the platform. Twitch’s early ...

The updated tool, currently available on the dashboard, gives creators and moderators the option to limit chat to users who agree to verify phone numbers or email addresses before entering. By Trilby ...

Twitch announced today that it will add new channel-level security features to help curb harassment on the platform. Now, creators and moderators can enable verified chat, requiring chatters to ...

Amid a rise in harassment campaigns carried out by automated bots, companies like Twitch are resorting to a more targeted approach—less “ban hammer,” and more like a bunch of little ban daggers.