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 ...

Twitch filed a lawsuit Thursday against two users, alleging that they were behind some of the hate raids on Twitch. The lawsuit comes in response to the recent upswell of hate raids and harassment ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Twitch raid customisation. Sharing banned accounts between streamers "helps the community protect each other before harassment can spread," said Shear.

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 ...

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.