The Twitch community has been suffering from hate raids for some time now. In these raids, users bring droves of bot accounts into a Twitch streamer's chat, and those bots spam hateful and abusive ...

To raise awareness of the hate raids and pressure Twitch to act, thousands of streamers have banded together under hashtags like #TwitchDoBetter and #ADayOffTwitch, a one-day boycott of the service.

A bunch of Twitch streamers have voiced their support for Pokimane after she cut a stream short following a hate raid. She was allowed to return to the platform on January 10 and was soon ...

The hate raids may have leverage Twitch’s new tagging system, which many transgender users had requested to make it easier to build community and to discover content that resonates.

While hate raids are still happening on Twitch, affected users do see this suit positively. Lucia Everblack, one of the organizers of #ADayOffTwitch, thinks this is a good step.

Hate raids are a complex dilemma born of an era in which communities spin intertwining webs between platforms. The damage might be done on Twitch, but it’s organized on chat platforms like ...

Twitch’s latest update introduces a tool that lets a streamer instantly transport their viewers to somebody else’s channel. Known as “raiding,” this has been used in the past to harass people.

Twitch Prime is today rolling out its first-ever non-gaming “loot” — a 30-day subscription to the anime streaming service Crunchyroll Premium. Crunchyroll is […] TechCrunch Desktop Logo ...

A Twitch Raid is one of the most effective, yet unpredictable, features for Twitch streamers to grow their channel - and it is now a crucial part of the live streaming platform’s ecosystem.