The Twitch platform announced an update on Wednesday to better detect hate speech in conversations, after three days of complaints from many content creators victims of harassment, including racist.
“We've seen a lot of talk about bots, hate raids and other forms of harassment targeting marginalized creators,” the company acknowledged on Twitter.
“We know that we need to do more to solve these problems,” continues the popular streaming service, where, among other things, more and less famous players broadcast their games of video games live.
The platform, which belongs to Amazon, then explains having identified a flaw in its automatic moderation filters and having deployed an appropriate update.
We've seen a lot of conversation about botting, hate raids, and other forms of harassment targeting marginalized creators.
You're asking us to do better, and we know we need to do more to address these issues.
That includes an open and ongoing dialogue about creator safety.
- Twitch (@Twitch) August 11, 2021
Many testimonies of hatred
She also indicates that she plans to launch other security measures to identify the prohibited channels that try to return and better verify the accounts. Testimonials have been accumulating since Monday under the #TwitchDoBetter banner (Twitch must do better). “People pretend the hate rains and stalker bots that say horrible things don't exist. Here is what just happened on my channel twenty minutes ago, ”for example, said Tuesday @ CriticalBard, a black American creator, in a video on Twitter.
He shows a part of a video game that is seemingly banal, where the face of Critical Bard filmed at the same time and the conversation space for spectator comments are displayed. Suddenly, the cat is covered with a single word, hammered endlessly by different authors, in capital letters: "Nègres" ("Niggers"). “I'm not going to continue playing. Twitch, damn it, do better, ”concludes the creator, followed by 15,800 people on this platform.
“All my friends are getting hate raids these days.
#TwitchDoBetter, ”tweeted @ chonkikage, who defines herself as“ player, designer, biracial, chronically ill ”.
“Make the platform safe for us, already, to begin with.
And give us a bigger share of the income too.
Given the volume of trolling and harassment suffered by marginalized streamers, 50% of the revenue generated by subscribers is not enough.
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