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Twitch Gives Trans, Black, And Disabled Streamers Tags, But Not Protection
19It’s been a whirlwind month for Anne Atomic. The streamer saw her star suddenly begin to rocket into the stratosphere in late May when Twitch introduced both a hot tub section and hundreds of new tags, including a particularly long-requested option: “transgender.” For Anne Atomic, these proved a potent combo; in June, her regular audience…
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Facebook’s 100% Subscription Money Deal Turns Twitch Streamers’ Heads
Facebook has made no secret of its desire to lure streamers over from Twitch’s saturated pastures. Its latest salvo in the streaming wars? Full subscription profits for streamers for the next two years.
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Tensions High At IGN After Management Claims Palestine Post Takedown Was Not Corporate Interference
The weekend before last, IGN published and then pulled a post with links to charities in support of Palestinian victims who’d been devastated by Israeli violence. This spurred over 80 IGN staffers to sign and publish an open letter decrying corporate management’s subversion of their editorial autonomy and demanding accountability. At first it seemed like…
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IGN Takes Down Article And Tweet Sharing Palestinian Aid Groups
Following the most recent set of violent military strikes by the Israel Defence Forces that have leveled entire buildings in Gaza and left over 180 Palestinians dead, IGN posted an article linking to a variety of Palestinian charities and even gave a Palestinian flag prominence in its masthead. Sometime earlier today, all of that content,…