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 ...

Twitch, the livestreaming platform popular among video game players, unveiled new guidelines this past week aimed at cracking down on hateful conduct and sexual harassment on its site. The site, which ...

Text-to-speech (TTS) software reads donated messages from users out loud on a streamer’s channel, usually as a goof. But things can get offensive real quick when internet trolls get involved, and ...

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The fight against online hate speech and harassment continues to gain momentum. Twitter's new policies against such behavior went live last November, while Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg began the new ...

Twitch today is announcing an update to its Community Guidelines that aim to clarify how the company will enforce its existing anti-harassment and hateful content policies, while also ramping up the ...