{"id":12020,"date":"2021-09-13T14:40:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T18:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=12020"},"modified":"2021-09-14T13:18:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:18:01","slug":"twitch-sues-two-linked-to-automated-harassment-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/twitch-sues-two-linked-to-automated-harassment-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitch Sues Two Linked to Automated Harassment Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twitch has filed suit against two people for using thousands of bots to spam a streamer&#8217;s chat with hateful comments aimed at people from marginalized communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawsuit accuses two users, using the usernames CruzzControl and Creatine Overdose, of being responsible for a network of 3,000 bots used in hate raids against streamers in the Black and LGBTQIA+ communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The users also said to have shown others how the bot works in order to use them for similar purposes on the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitch claims to have directly linked CreatineOverdose to several incidents, including an August 15th stream in which they claimed to be members of the &#8220;KKK.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the lawsuit will not end the hate raids, many agree that it is a step in the right direction, and Twitch also promises to take more action at the platform level from now on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Twitch spokesman said of the company&#8217;s future plan: &#8220;Our teams have been working around the clock to update our proactive detection systems, address new behaviors as they emerge, and finalize new proactive, channel-level safety tools that we&#8217;ve been developing for months.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/twitch-sues-hate-raiders-cruzzcontrol-and-creatine-overdose-184439305.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> original story<\/a> in Engadget.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitch has filed suit against two people for using bots to spam a streamer&#8217;s chat with hateful comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-12020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-twitch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12053,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020\/revisions\/12053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}