Twitch sued two of its users for targeting its streamers with hateful and racist speech. The company accused the users of conducting "hate raids" against marginalized streamers. "Hate raids" are when ...

Since early August, Twitch has been wrestling with an epidemic of harassment against marginalized streamers known as “hate raids.” These attacks spam streamers’ chats with hateful and bigoted language ...

Twitch filed a lawsuit Thursday against two users who it says targeted LGBTQ+ and Black streamers with hate speech and evaded the company’s efforts to kick them off, one week after content creators ...

Twitch saw a resurgence of hate raids over the weekend, as "bad actors" spammed the channels of women and LGBTQ+ streamers with hateful and homophobic chat messages. The raids are reportedly ...

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Twitch's "Hate Raids" plan for 2022 has been laid out in an open letter, which shares the moves that the streaming platform is doing to combat the "unacceptable" trends of 2021 altogether. This ...

Twitch sued two of its users for targeting its streamers with hateful and racist speech. The company accused the users of conducting "hate raids" against marginalized streamers. "Hate raids" are when ...