Twitch continues to develop preventive measures against child abusers on the platform, and is updating its policy to include mandatory phone verification for what it calls "vulnerable accounts" and other steps to keep minors under 13 safe and off the site. Under their current policy, they are already prohibited from using Twitch.
In the Twitch update, “Keeping people safe online requires an ever-evolving approach. That's true of our big picture of safety at Twitch, but it's especially true today of a topic like child abuse, where the potential harm is so dire and indescribable.”
Update , your Twitch It will come two months after it initially highlighted the methods it uses to combat abuse. The Changes is September, which explores how child abusers interact with the site in gruesome ways to view and manipulate live-streaming children, even though Twitch technically doesn't allow anyone under the age of 13 to use the site. to the Bloomberg report came in response. According to Twitch rules, children between the ages of 14 and 17 are allowed to stream and create accounts on the site.
Bloomberg's reports recorded numerous instances where dozens or hundreds of viewers watched underage children and encouraged them to perform various tasks or actions in chat. Through a researcher, Bloomberg was able to verify 1.976 accounts that followed a large number of children, and the report noted that the site discovered more accounts that were not cataloged by the researcher.
At the time, Twitch said it would "continue to aggressively expand staff, technologies, industry relations and internal processes" to stop children under 13 from using the site and prevent exploiters from exploiting anyone who infiltrates the vulnerabilities. The platform has given further clarification on what it is doing to prevent the problem from escalating.
TwitchHe explained that “there is no single fix that will prevent predation,” adding that he cannot share all of his methods “to avoid giving bad actors information they can use to evade our efforts.” But as of now, the site enforces mandatory phone verification requirements “before potentially vulnerable accounts can go live” and also prevents users who have been suspended for being a minor from creating new accounts. Twitch also said it "continues to refine the moderation technology" used by staff to review reports.
The default privacy settings for Whispers have been changed, certain search terms to find streams are blocked, and Twitch has acquired Spirit AI, the language processing artificial intelligence, to help “build more nuanced classifiers to detect any harm in written text on Twitch.” All of these changes have taken place in the last two months as the site continues to work on preventative measures.
Twitch classifies child abuse as "imminent harm", which falls under one of the site's top priority categories for threats. “Collaboration is critical,” he says, encouraging anyone with knowledge of this malicious activity on Twitch to share it so that appropriate action can be taken.
