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Twitch Isn’t Overwhelmed With Far-Right Extremists, But It Does Have A Big Misinformation Problem
Twitch’s relationship with misinformation is complicated. In 2020, platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter grappled with their outsized roles in the creation and cultivation of conspiracy movements like QAnon. Misinformation troubled Twitch in a different way, but the platform emerged curiously un-plagued by a comparable extremism epidemic. Now, midway through 2021, Twitch is finally…
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Twitch’s Latest Sensation Is A Stop Sign Where No One Stops
A blue car pulls up to a stop sign. Against all odds, it briefly, miraculously comes to a halt. Twitch chat goes ballistic. Numerous people spam “I was here” as pogchamp emotes flood in. This is Stopsigncam, a Twitch channel that suddenly has over 125,000 followers even though it’s just a camera trained on a…
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Donald Trump Has A Twitch Channel Now
Donald Trump got a Twitch channel, from which he’s currently livestreaming a rally in Minneapolis. This is how we live now.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison Calls For Livestreaming To Be Suspended
Following the livestreaming of the horrific terrorist attack last Friday by a white supremacist, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for livestreaming to be suspended across all social media as a result of the inability of major tech companies to respond more effectively to the situation.