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 ...

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Meet Neuro-sama, a cutesy AI-powered character which is now the top streamer on Twitch by active subscriber-count, according ...

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 ...

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 ...

As it looks away from conventional recruitment methods, like billboards and TV spots, the Army is now streaming video games, providing plenty of potential for critics of the US military to engage in a ...

"His messages were quintessential political speech," wrote the Columbia University-based institute in its letter to the Army and Navy while referring to a Twitch user who was allegedly banned. On the ...

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 Elder Scrolls Skyrim fan works his 9-5 job from within the RPG, battling bandits while tackling emails and facing dragons during PowerPoints: "Work from home became work from Whiterun" Red Dead ...

The U.S. Army will reinstate 300 or so users recently banned from its e-sports Twitch channel after a controversy erupted about why the ban happened, with the Knight First Amendment Institute at ...

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 ...